Noatun MP3 playback on RH8
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Sat Nov 9 05:29:00 GMT 2002
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Chris Arrowood wrote:
>
>> As you know, RH8 removed support for MP3's due to possible patent
>> issues. I found the page on RH's site saying that playback could be
>> restored by info found at xmms.org and mpg123.org. I upgraded both of
>> these packages and also upgraded to KDE 3.04.
>
>
> You don't need to just upgrade the packages, you need to look at the
> information on the sites.
>
>> I staill can not get noatun to open/play mp3 files. XMMS can. Noatun
>> does not even list mp3 as a file type that I can add to my playlist or
>> open, much less actually getting to the playback part.
>>
>> Any ideas? Did I miss something?
>>
> Yes, you need to illegally install LAME:
>
> http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
>
It is also possible that RedHat built NoAtun without MP3 support. In
that case, you will have to get it somewhere else or build from source.
--
JRT
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