Subj : Re: Music Sites For Linux
To   : ROB MCCART
From : richardw
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 10:07 am

  Re: Re: Music Sites For Linux
  By: ROB MCCART to TRACKER1 on Tue Aug 23 2005 06:31 pm

 > RM>> A friend of mine was playing with Fedora Core 4 and then tried
 >   >> Suse 9.3 but both included little or no support for MP3 playing
 > 
 > TR>If you do an XMMS source build it will have mp3 support, redhat/fedora re
 >   >it because of potential for patent litigation... considering what
 >   >fraunhoffer(sp) did to the encoding tools, I don't blame them. :)
 > 
 > Thanks for the input from everyone..
 > 
 > My friend installed something he called a multi media package
 > and it seemed to fix the MP3 situation but then he got in a huff
 > when it wouldn't play most of the video files he wanted it to..

You can get support for many video formats here...
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

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