Just a suggestion for the moblin team: Instead of having it simply not play the mp3 (and it "acts" like it's playing it, changing the play button and "opening it up"), it should pop up a message box saying, "This type of audio file needs the proper codecs to play on moblin. You can find a free codec at..."
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Paul Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Cooper <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] MP3 will not play in Moblin 2 liveUSB!! > To: "don rhummy" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 5:01 AM > You can get a free mp3 codec from > fluendo.com, or if you need video and > other audio codecs they do a bundle for 28 Euros. If you > get the > Fedora / SUSE / Mandriva rpm it should work fine on > Moblin. > > Paul > > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:53 -0700, don rhummy wrote: > > WOW! If that's really true, then moblin's going to > have a hard time > > getting people to install it. So, what can I do to get > mp3's working? > > > > (And by the way, i found the package repository app > and installed firefox) > > > > --- On Fri, 9/18/09, Sean Budd <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > From: Sean Budd <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] MP3 will not play in > Moblin 2 liveUSB!! > > > To: "don rhummy" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:46 PM > > > I believe the issue with mp3 playback is due > > > to licensing/proprietary code if I'm not > mistaken.There > > > may be a workaround I would imagine,but I dont > believe it > > > will be included in moblin as least by > default.Someone > > > correct me if I'm wrong here. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, > > > don rhummy <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > mp3's won't play at all! Is this a known bug or > > > should I start one in a bug tracker? > > > > > > > > > > > > It's really too bad because otherwise - wow! > everything > > > works right out of the box (except mp3's > obviously) and > > > the interface is very snappy! I like it a lot and > hope this > > > issue is figured out quickly. > > > > > > > > > > > > One other small thing - I wanted to install > firefox and did > > > not see anything for using repositories so I > tried to > > > download it directly but there's also no > archiving > > > capapbility to open the tar.bz2 file. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Moblin dev Mailing List > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list > visit: > > > > > > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev > > > or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged > > > in. > > > > > > > > > > > > For more information on the Moblin Developer > Mailing lists > > > visit: > > > > > > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Moblin dev Mailing List > > [email protected] > > > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list > visit: > > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or > your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. > > > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing > lists visit: > > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > -- > Intel Open Source Technology Centre > http://oss.intel.com/ > > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
