I use "mpg321 file.mpg". Suse 9.3
On 01/27/2007 09:20 PM somebody named Zhang Weiwu wrote: > As I recently discovered it is not very easy to enable mp3 on most media > players of OpenSuSE (except RealPlayer). I am getting upset for this, > because this might block a lot of non-techie user using SuSE (after all > RealPlayer is not the default player in SuSE). Maybe I am doing > something stupid (I am only a one year old SuSE user after all, and not > a community organization expert) but I wish to call SuSE user and > developer's attention to this issue so that: > > I. as a best solution, motivate opensuse to enable mp3 by default > on bmp, xmms, banshee, rhymbox, gstreamer (including totem) and > all players; > II. as a fall back solution, let's collect solutions on how to > enalbe mp3 on various players and make sure end users can easily > find these solution, and these solutions are not too complex. > These solutions must make their way on the web so that users can > find them very easily, things appear in second google search > result won't be a lot helpful for users. (I knew there are > already a lot of "solutions" but they are often either not easy > to find or doesn't work. Check my ealier post.) > III. if OpenSuSE decide not to enable mp3 support because it's not > "Free" by GNU definition, at least we can try to submit some > patches and make these patchs gets into opensuse so that when a > music play failed to play mp3, it prompts with some > user-friendly message that you need to look up this and that > webpage for solutions on how to enable mp3 support. > > I myself am still looking for solution to enable mp3 on either Banshee > or Rthymbox. Looks so far Banshee it's easiler to find a solution for > Banshee. I am still working on it. > > Study shows not every "ordinary users" actually use google to search for > a solution when they got a problem. So if people have to search for how > to enable mp3, we already know many people has given up. And also study > shows even in opensource world, only 1/7 people go ask questions on > forum or mailing list. So if a google search doesn't leads to a workable > solution, 6/7 people perhaps give up, only 1/7 will post something like > me. Well perhaps only a very few percent will have a true hacker's > spirit and hack down a solution when questions on forum/lists doesn't > get a solution. > > P.S. I read some forum threads saying SuSE Enterprise Linux Desktop have > mp3 enabled by default. Is this ture? If so I'd like to try it and > recommend other people to use that one in place of opensuse provide it's > not too expensive for most users. > > P.S. "If it's not working, source is there and why not work it out > yourself?" Well, I'd be glad to hack the source to solve it myself IF > THE MUSIC PLAYER don't support MP3 NATIVELY. But the mp3 problem we are > facing is already solved by all Linux music players, the situation is > music players support mp3, SuSE removed it. So this is a non-technical > issue. > > Sorry for bad English! > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
