Phonon mp3 problems

[Dr. Diesel]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:33 AM, E. Berkenpies <fedora at berkenpies.nl> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:41:51 +1000,  wrote:
> > 2008/10/2 Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel at gmail.com>:
> >> Current SVN of 2.0, when attempting to load any mp3 I receive this
> > error:
> >>
> >> [2008-10-01 20:26] <p>Phonon claims it <b>cannot</b> play MP3 files. You
> > may
> >> want to examine the installation of the backend that phonon
> > uses.</p><p>You
> >> may find useful information in the <i>FAQ</i> section of the <i>Amarok
> >> Handbook</i>.</p>
> >>
> >> This is on a fresh Fedora install.  The suggested Amarok handbook was
> > last
> >> updated over 2 years ago, didn't find any reference to this error!
> >>
> >> I have no other mp3 xine packages installed (found a reference in Ubuntu
> > to
> >> phonon-xine), but can't find any documentation saying I even need them!
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >
> > I highly doubt that fedora would come with mp3 support out of the box.
> >
> > Please see http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3_on_Fedora_Core
>
> Having a proper Phonon back-end will definitely fix this issue. Make sure
> you got MP3 support like Seb already suggested above
> (gstreamer-plugins-ugly and perhaps gstreamer-plugins-bad to extend the
> range of supported formats - check
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/ for more info). Also make
> sure you've installed the right packages for the Phonon back-end too:
>
> phonon.i386                              4.2.0-5.fc9            installed
> phonon-backend-gstreamer.i386            4.2.0-5.fc9            installed
>
> Phonon can be extended with more back-ends. For example you could add Xine
> as a back-end too (phonon-backend-xine.i386). Then again you'd obviously
> need the proper plugins again which are also  in the Livna repository
> (xine-lib-extras-nonfree I think).
>
> Hope this helps you a bit.
>
> Eelko Berkenpies
> http://www.berkenpies.nl
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Ok, thanks, that is defiantly my problem.  No documentation/README/Install
says anything about zine, I thought Phonon was a completely new backend!
Hence I purposely did not install zine!

Many thanks

Andy

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