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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : Murphy, Damian (SSABSA) <damian@ssabsa.sa.gov.au>
        linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:42:37 +1030

RE: XMMS not working

Thanks for the help people. 
AG.


>  I had the same issue with RH8 - an explanation and rpm that fixes the
> ability to play mp3s is available at http://www.xmms.org on 
> the front page.
> 
> Damian.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: michaeld@senet.com.au
> To: Andrew Galdes
> Cc: Linux Group (E-mail)
> Sent: 1/6/03 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: XMMS not working
> 
> Quoting Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>:
> > I have custom installed RH8.0 over a previous install of suse and
> found that
> > xmms isn't working from any user including new users. 
> > 
> > When starting xmms, it loads fine. however, it will not 
> play anything.
> > Pressing play will bring up the "Open" window asking me to select a
> song to
> > play. Selecting a song and pressing play just repeats the story. 
> > 
> > I have cleared the /tmp directory of anything likely to be 
> the cause.
> I have
> > reinstalled xmms. Anything else I should try?
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Are you trying to play a mp3?  xmms under RedHat doesn't support mp3
> natively 
> right now due to licensing concerns - there are RH8 RPMs with support
> available 
> from 3rd parties on the web which are meant for RH8.  Google 
> will help.
> 
> And before people get on the bandwagon, I don't blame RH for 
> going down
> this 
> path - distributors haven't been given immunity from MP3 licensing
> costs, so a) 
> Red Hat would have to charge more, and b) their freely 
> downloadable ISOs
> would 
> have to differ from the "supported" ISOs.  Go Ogg Vorbis go!
> 
> OTOH, if other sound files don't work as well, look at what sound
> daemons you 
> have going, that might help.  I don't believe there's been any change
> there, 
> but it wouldn't hurt to check.
> -- 
> Michael Davies                "Do what you think is interesting, do
> michaeld@senet.com.au          something that you think is fun and
> mirky on irc                   worthwhile, because otherwise you won't
>                                do it well anyway." -- Brian Kernighan
> 
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