they removed the mp3 libs because of legal battle and fear of patent infrigement.
i can't blame them, they are a profitable company that emphasises on making money and so a fear of legal battle is very frightening. especially when Fraun-something (the inventors of mp3 format) is making everybody who uses mp3 technology to pay them per product sold. Besides, you can easily d/l the missing rpm from xmms website. Oleg. ----- Original Message ----- From: "voguemaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:28 PM Subject: Re: xmms rh8 > Honestly I don't quite get it. > How can they break such a behaviour or supported feature of the system ?? > > RH at previous versions could play mp3 easily, now you can't use XMMS ?????????? > This makes me think twice about this release.. > > Eli > > 04/10/02 04:40:42, Amir Sela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thursday 03 October 2002 23:56, Meir Michanie wrote: > >> Hi list: > >> I installed rh8 and xmms was unable to play mp3, > >> > >> running rpm -ql xmms I saw that libmpeg123.so and libmpeg123.la was > >> missing from the packet. So I copied from another machine running rh7.3 > >> > >> Isn't it weird? > > > >From http://www.xmms.org/ : > > > >Redhat 8 + Can't play mp3's? > >Oct 02, 2002 > > > > > >If you are using Redhat 8 and the supplied RPMS of XMMS you will find that it > >is not possible to load any mp3 files. Redhat was supposed to have a > >placeholder plugin informing you of the change, but that seems to have gone > >missing. > > Available >> here << is some additional information and a mpg123 RPM for > >Redhat 8 installation of XMMS. > > > > Hopefully, I've made myself clear on this subject, since Redhat apparently > >failed to get their message through. > > > > > > > >================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > "There's so many different worlds > So many different suns > And we have just one world > But we live in different ones.." > > - Dire Straits > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
