New install has codec but won't play mp3s

Myriam Schweingruber myriam at kde.org
Sun Apr 18 10:48:07 UTC 2010


Hi Anne,

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:39, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've met the rapidly-passing-over-mp3s situation.  I remember that mamarok has
> said that this is because codecs are missing, but I've installed the fluendo
> codec.  I did restart amarok - is there something else I need to do to get
> amarok to recognise the codec?

Well, it always depends on your Phonon backend, you need the
libxine1-ffmpeg for the Xine backend, and the gstreamer codecs for the
Gstreamer backend.


Regards, Myriam
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