audio decoder

[gocool]

I am completely new to Fedora.......I am using Fedora 8..I tried to play a mp3 file but it says need the audio decoder..can any one give the link to the decoder...also please do tell me where to unzip and copy to??

[cola]

Being root.

yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly
yum install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-freeworld audacious-plugins-freeworld-*

Hope it works.

[gocool]

actually i dont have internet.....so i cant use live update.......also i tried installing fluendo mp3 decoder..........when i tried playing mp3 files it again says the same thing(gstreamer plugins not found).....
do i need to schedule some cronjob??.......or any environment variable has to be set??.....please do help me in this regard..........

[cola]

Do you use Fedora 10 and dial up connection?

[gocool]

i have fedora 8........and i dont have any net connection.......basically i download from cafe and then take it back......apart from updating online is there any other way.......

[cola]

Download RealPlayer11GOLD from here as rpm package.
http://www.real.com/linux/
Being root

rpm -ivh RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm

Try to run .mp3 file with this and reply what happens.

[PabloTwo]

While you're at the cafe', go to the F8 RPMFusion-free-updates site and grab the following packges:

faac-1.25-7.fc8.i386.rpm
faad2-2.6.1-6.fc8.i386.rpm
faad2-libs-2.6.1-6.fc8.i386.rpm
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.48.20080908.fc8.i386.rpm
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.48.20080908.fc8.i386.rpm
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.3-7.fc8.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.5-16.fc8.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-6.fc8.i386.rpm
lame-3.98.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm
lame-libs-3.98.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.1b-8.fc8.i386.rpm
libmpeg2-0.5.1-3.fc8.i386.rpm

This assumes you're running x86 (32 bit F8) and not x86_64. The above packages should cover you fairly well for audio codecs. To install, put them all into a directory together (with no other rpm packages), open a terminal:

cd /path/to/the/rpm/files
su
password
yum --disablerepo=* --nogpgcheck localinstall *.rpm

It's possible you may hit a package or two that needs a dependency or two. If so, you'll need to dertermine what package(s) you'll need to get to fullfill those dependencies and find them in the F8 repos while back at the cafe'.

The other repos to look for packages/dependencies are here and here.

[gocool]

i will try and let you know....

[gocool]

Hi cola...thanx dude...real gold player is working.............but the problem is that it cannot play all formats...as far as i used mp3,rmvb,wmv are working..but mpg or avi is not working........