MP3

I am a user of SUSE OSS 10.0. After downloading all the java and realplayer
packages and installing them, I realized that the only player to support
MP3 in this distro is RealPlayer. I understand that this is for legal
reasons, but with SUSE 9.3, so-called Multimedia Option Packs were
available on European servers (and that's where I live), and after
installing them every player on the system such as xmms and amarok was able
to play MP3. Are those Packs also going to be available for 10.0?

I have tried the amarok-helix package, but it doesn't work. Amarok says
that it can't load the helix-engine whenever I start it up. I figured that
this is because of the wrong directory paths in the configuration window
(/usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins doesn't exist) but I have no idea what are
the correct paths.

Migulic

migulic@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
> I am a user of SUSE OSS 10.0. After downloading all the java and realplayer
> packages and installing them, I realized that the only player to support
> MP3 in this distro is RealPlayer. I understand that this is for legal
> reasons, but with SUSE 9.3, so-called Multimedia Option Packs were
> available on European servers (and that's where I live), and after
> installing them every player on the system such as xmms and amarok was able
> to play MP3. Are those Packs also going to be available for 10.0?
>
> I have tried the amarok-helix package, but it doesn't work. Amarok says
> that it can't load the helix-engine whenever I start it up. I figured that
> this is because of the wrong directory paths in the configuration window
> (/usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins doesn't exist) but I have no idea what are
> the correct paths.

> Migulic

Had a similar question to this newsgroup just over a week ago, which you
might care to have look at. One of the suggestions was to install
kdemultimedia3-mad which helped me. You might also install libxine from
Packman.

Krister

install all mad packeges you find in synapric. also install xine.
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/ you will find this
article interesting

Krister Hallergard wrote:

> migulic@poczta.onet.pl wrote:
>> I am a user of SUSE OSS 10.0. After downloading all the java and
>> realplayer packages and installing them, I realized that the only player
>> to support MP3 in this distro is RealPlayer. I understand that this is
>> for legal reasons, but with SUSE 9.3, so-called Multimedia Option Packs
>> were available on European servers (and that's where I live), and after
>> installing them every player on the system such as xmms and amarok was
>> able to play MP3. Are those Packs also going to be available for 10.0?
>>
>> I have tried the amarok-helix package, but it doesn't work. Amarok says
>> that it can't load the helix-engine whenever I start it up. I figured
>> that this is because of the wrong directory paths in the configuration
>> window (/usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins doesn't exist) but I have no idea
>> what are the correct paths.
>
>> Migulic
>
> Had a similar question to this newsgroup just over a week ago, which you
> might care to have look at. One of the suggestions was to install
> kdemultimedia3-mad which helped me. You might also install libxine from
> Packman.
>
> Krister