I have been struggling to get gstreamer to play MP3 files. I understand that MP3 support is removed from FC3 and that the RPM 'gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio' from freshrpms will add the support.
I add the freshrpms repo into my /etc/yum/repo.d/ directory and then installed the key for the repo 'rpm --import <url>'. After that I ran an update, just to make sure, and the entered the command 'yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio'. The software and deps where downloaded and installed.
I then ran 'gst-register' as root and as my user account. Next I started the Rhythmbox application and upon playing an MP3 file is crashed!! Any ideas? I'm a bit stumped.
Secondly, is it worth installing 'apt' when yum seems to be the same thing?
Can I get gstreamer-plugins-mp3 from freshrpms? I'll have a hunt.
I'm a bit new to all this and to be honest it's a bit of step learning curve, I have used synaptic on debian so that would be prefered. Can synaptic work with yum?
[root@blade jward]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repo: base
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Setting up Repo: updates-released
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:01
Setting up Repo: freshrpms
repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2852/2852
updates-re: ################################################## 380/380
freshrpms : ################################################## 422/422
No Match for argument gstreamer-plugins-mp3
Nothing to do
[root@blade jward]#
Di you add the repos to yum? Check out www.fedorafaq.org for how to do this.
As I don't use synaptic, I can't give you a definite answer, but I believe that synaptic uses apt as a back end. This thread http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...light=synaptic might be of interest to you.
Hope that helps!
From what I read there, if you mix using synaptic with other front ends you will mess up your system badly!
Also, bear in mind that there is a bug in the latest version of rhythmbox which really annoys me: When you add a folder to the library, it will loop forever (hang/crash) when it finds a jpg in it or it's subdirectories. I'm having that problem on version 0.8.8