On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 07:13 -0400, Eddie O'Connor wrote: > I Will overlook any perceived shortcomings from now on.... I wouldn't go that far, just have a look into why it doesn't do something you thought it ought to. Perhaps it's a legal reason. Perhaps it conflicts with a goal of the distro. Perhaps it's simply that nobody's implemented what you wanted. Perhaps what you want isn't ready for inclusion, yet. You'll get short shrift, on this list, if you were to rant about how the distro doesn't support MP3 playback, for instance. But if you'd simply said that you couldn't find anything to play MP3s, you would have been told Fedora can't/won't support it, but there's at least one external repo that you can use that does. And some clues to start you off installing what you needed from it. It's the approach that matters.

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 00:38 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > > Ok so FINALLY I've gone ahead and gotten my laptop upgraded to Fedora > 17! But I now am trying to play .mp4 / .flv/ .avi movies on it and > getting an error message telling me that there are plugins missing. I > also get error messages when I try to play mp3's. Even though I get > system sounds. Is there something I've missed? I've followed most of > the online forums which recommed installing something called RPM > Fusion, but when I did that and then tried the Movie Player again I > got the same window now telling me that there's an ASF demuxer > missing........(sigh!) why couldn't the building of these distros have > included this stuff? I'd say what you've "missed" is the philosophy of this particular distribution, of being free from various legal encumbrances. Yes, you can add other things to do what you want, but you're going to have to manage that, yourself, potentially breaking the law. And that's why Fedora doesn't include them. The alternative is to go for another distribution, which either doesn't care about breaking laws, or has made some form of arrangement that makes it legal (they've sought permission to use proprietary stuff, or paid for the rights, or have set themselves up somewhere where such laws don't apply to them - but may still apply to you, et cetera). Most distros have a certain ethos to them, and it's easier to go with one that's already what you want, rather than trying to change its nature. It's not impossible, just easier. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org

the topic is not related to this issue, u should use another post so next guy asking here the same thing can retrieve it using google, like this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=installing+mp3+plugin+fedora reading here and there, i got that mp3 is not a free codec, so it is not released with fedora; if u want use closed codec u should use unofficial repo like fusion i do not suggest you to use it if u are not very very familiar with fedora upgrades: the next upgrade u will have trouble having included rpmfusion and u will think back to my suggestion u suggest you to play music with other codec like ogg, it's free regards m.

On 08/05/2012 12:38 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: <snip rant which has been raised too many times and answered too many times> > Error From Video Player: > Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file > The following plugins are required: MPEG-4 AAC decoder > H.264 decoder > Do you want to search for these now? > > Error from RhythmBox Media Player: > Rhythmbox requires an additional plugin to decode this file > The following plugin is required: MPEG-1 Layer 3 decoder > Do you want to search for this now? I've no problems to play all video and audio formats. Configured rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree and installed these.... gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.22-3.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-extras-0.10.31-4.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-1.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-4.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.22-2.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.8-2.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-7.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-1.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64 Sorry for the unintentional rant...I was just "venting" because there's no one else here to talk to except the poster of Jimi Hendrix, or the small plastic version of The Joker!.....just to clarify...I have to go and install these one at a time? using yum?....(still not a master of Linux yet!....but getting there!)

Ok so FINALLY I've gone ahead and gotten my laptop upgraded to Fedora 17! But I now am trying to play .mp4 / .flv/ .avi movies on it and getting an error message telling me that there are plugins missing. I also get error messages when I try to play mp3's. snip