Mp3?

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 13:07, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04.43, toehead2 at juno.com wrote:
> > I finally got sound working on YDL 4.0 Playing of WAV files works..
> > Noatun simply stops when I try to play an mp3. What program can be used
> > to play mp3's, and where do I get it ? Thanks for your replies.... And
> > BTW, Im posting from konqueror, at last
>
> If I remember well the message I got, YDL removed mp3 support alltogether
> because of license problems. I'd look for an XMMS package for ppc that does
> not have this limitation - if mp3 support is located directly in xmms.
>
> Or you might look for a tool that batch converts mp3 to oggs
>
> Thierry

Recompiling XMMS is quite simple. I downloaded the source rpm from xmms.org, 
performed a rpmbuild --rebuild <xmms-source-package> as root, removed the 
installed xmms package, and installed the newly build one.

After that, I had mp3 playback via xmms.

Cheers,

Geert Jan