You can get a free mp3 codec from fluendo.com, or if you need video and other audio codecs they do a bundle for 28 Euros. If you get the Fedora / SUSE / Mandriva rpm it should work fine on Moblin.
Paul On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:53 -0700, don rhummy wrote: > WOW! If that's really true, then moblin's going to have a hard time > getting people to install it. So, what can I do to get mp3's working? > > (And by the way, i found the package repository app and installed firefox) > > --- On Fri, 9/18/09, Sean Budd <seanmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Sean Budd <seanmb...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] MP3 will not play in Moblin 2 liveUSB!! > > To: "don rhummy" <donrhu...@yahoo.com> > > Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:46 PM > > I believe the issue with mp3 playback is due > > to licensing/proprietary code if I'm not mistaken.There > > may be a workaround I would imagine,but I dont believe it > > will be included in moblin as least by default.Someone > > correct me if I'm wrong here. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, > > don rhummy <donrhu...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > > mp3's won't play at all! Is this a known bug or > > should I start one in a bug tracker? > > > > > > > > It's really too bad because otherwise - wow! everything > > works right out of the box (except mp3's obviously) and > > the interface is very snappy! I like it a lot and hope this > > issue is figured out quickly. > > > > > > > > One other small thing - I wanted to install firefox and did > > not see anything for using repositories so I tried to > > download it directly but there's also no archiving > > capapbility to open the tar.bz2 file. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Moblin dev Mailing List > > > > dev@moblin.org > > > > > > > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > > > > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev > > or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged > > in. > > > > > > > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists > > visit: > > > > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > dev@moblin.org > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
