MPEG-1 Player

DemianDemerzel · #1 13th April 2012, 04:24 PM

Does anyone know how to play MPEG-1 files in Fedora 16 (Verne)? This is the message I get when I try to play those files. I am not a programmer. So I will appreciate if you kept your answers simple.

Thank you.

vallimar · #2 13th April 2012, 04:39 PM

You want to play mp3's?
Look at the set-up guides and/or search the forums.

DemianDemerzel · #3 13th April 2012, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vallimar

You want to play mp3's?
Look at the set-up guides and/or search the forums.

I can play MP3 files through Rhythmbox. But for some reason I can't play MPEG-1 (Layer 3) files that are to be found here, on BBC. I can download them and play. But I don't want to download. I just want to listen to the programmes online. Is it possible?

PabloTwo · #4 13th April 2012, 05:18 PM

Your thread title and your leading question is not appropriate. Apparently what you seek is "how to play mp3's in firefox?". Well, what works for me is this:

Code:

yum install npapi-vlc

nonamedotc · #5 13th April 2012, 05:19 PM

Do you have ffmpeg installed?

Try playing the video after installing ffmpeg/

Code:

yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg

DemianDemerzel · #6 13th April 2012, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Your thread title and your leading question is not appropriate. Apparently what you seek is "how to play mp3's in firefox?". Well, what works for me is this:

Code:

yum install npapi-vlc

Thank you. I will be careful in future.

And the command you mention doesn't work because Terminal says the package isn't available.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Try playing the video after installing ffmpeg/

I am sorry to say the command you give doesn't work either.

Here is a screenshot:

nonamedotc · #7 13th April 2012, 06:40 PM

You would need to setup rpmfusion repository either of the packages.

Setup rpmfusion using

Code:

yum install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

yum update

After this, try what you tried before.

PabloTwo · #8 13th April 2012, 06:44 PM

In order to install (most) media codecs and such things, you need the rpmfusion repositories installed. Since you stated that you could play mp3's through Rhythmbox, we assumed you already had the rpmfusion-free repo installed. If not, then go here.

nonamedotc's suggestion is even better.

DemianDemerzel · #9 13th April 2012, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

You would need to setup rpmfusion repository either of the packages.

Setup rpmfusion using

Code:

yum install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

yum update

After this, try what you tried before.

I thank you for your kind assistance. I did exactly what you said; installed both packages (ffmpeg and npapi-vlc) after this nogpgcheck command. Despite the problem persists.

PabloTwo · #10 13th April 2012, 07:24 PM

Did you shut down and restart FF after installing npapi-vlc? That package installs a mozilla plugin. It's also possible there is another mozilla plugin that conflicts with the npapi-vlc plugin. You are trying to play a podcast in mp3 format directly from the BBC website, right?

What does the output of these say: (use 1st command if you're using 32 bit Fedora, 2nd if you're using 64 bit)

Code:

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ls -l /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

You should see libvlcplugin.so in the output.

nonamedotc · #11 13th April 2012, 07:30 PM

Oh yeah! You might have conflicts with totem-mozplugin. If you see libvlcplugin.so, you might want to use yum to get rid of totem-mozplugin.

Hopefully, this will be all that is needed.

P.S I recently had this conflicting even with flash.

PabloTwo · #12 13th April 2012, 07:34 PM

I just tested listening to a podcast (mp3 format) from the BBC site you linked to in both google-chrome-stable and firefox 11.0 and they both worked.

DemianDemerzel · #13 13th April 2012, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Did you shut down and restart FF after installing npapi-vlc? That package installs a mozilla plugin. It's also possible there is another mozilla plugin that conflicts with the npapi-vlc plugin. You are trying to play a podcast in mp3 format directly from the BBC website, right?

What does the output of these say: (use 1st command if you're using 32 bit Fedora, 2nd if you're using 64 bit)

Code:

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ls -l /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

You should see libvlcplugin.so in the output.

Do you know Pablo, I am not most stupid person in the world. It didn't even occur to me to reboot. Now that I have rebooted, everything works fine. I thank you very much for your kind help. ^_^

And here's what I get when I give that ls command.

nonamedotc · #14 13th April 2012, 07:41 PM

Well, plugin that should be there is indeed there! Glad that you got it to work! Cheers.

tsorvoja · #15 13th April 2012, 08:29 PM

I'm not sure what player firefox tries to use, but I suppose that it is totem. Therefore try installing gstreamer-plugin* codec packages (except devel-packages. Some of those packages contains codec for mp3 decoding. Hope that this helps.

edit: should have updated this page. Glad that you got it working!