Mike: You can get the GStreamer MP3 Fluendo plugin legally and for free from the FLuendo webstore:
http://shop.fluendo.com/ Even though Sun has a license to distribute Solaris with MP3 decoder technologies, we do not ship the GStreamer MP3 decoder plugin with Solaris. This is because some GStreamer-based media programs included in Solaris are GPL. Nobody can distribute GPL programs with non-GPL compatible code (such as MP3 decoder logic). It is a violation of the GPL license unless the GPL program has an exception clause that allows you to do this. I am currently working with the GStreamer and GNOME communities to add GPL exception clauses to the various GStreamer-based media programs. Such an exception clause has already been added to rhythmbox, Songbird, and totem. However, we need to get a similar exception clause added to the rest of the GStreamer-based media programs shipped with Solaris before we can add back the GStreamer MP3 decoder plugin. In the meantime, just downloading and installing the free Fluendo MP3 decoder plugin is the easiest solution. Brian > I have recently installed build 93 and now rhythmbox will not load mp3 files. > I get the following error. > The GStreamer plugins to decode "MP#" files cannot be found. > > I compiled and installed the latest gstreamer. Then attempted to compile > plugins-base but get the following errors: > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' > Current working directory /tmp/work/gst-plugins-base-0.10.19/gst-libs > *** Error code 1 > The following command caused the error: > failcom='exit 1'; \ > for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \ > case $f in \ > *=* | --[!k]*);; \ > *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \ > esac; \ > done; \ > > Question 1: This worked out-of-the-CD on build 81. Why am I needing to > compile this? > Question 2: What does the above error mean? > > Thanks for any help > <mike> > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
