Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-27六的 00:38 +0200,Alexey Eremenko写道: > AFAIK: you can play mp3's on default SUSE installs by means of Real > Media Player 10. (for total newbies) > > If you don't like this, you can download the proper codecs from Pacman > repository. (for newbies, that can get some support from Linuxoid

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Alexey Eremenko
AFAIK: you can play mp3's on default SUSE installs by means of Real Media Player 10. (for total newbies) If you don't like this, you can download the proper codecs from Pacman repository. (for newbies, that can get some support from Linuxoids) SUSEhelp> For multimedia and other restricted format

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 26 January 2007 03:02, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 00:42, Russell Jones wrote: > > > >> You could have done that. > >> > >> However, I think you'll find it simpler to just add the VLC repository: > >> http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Clayton
I'm not sure about the history of this post and I do not use gstreamer (that I know of). But all I did to get mp3 and other codecs to work in Amarok, mplayer etc was to install libxine1 from Packman. Took me one Google search and the time to add Packman to SmartPackageManager (can use Yast,Zypp,wa

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:57 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > I belive this has wasted many many (or perhaps thousands) people's hours > and hours on figuring this out. How to play MP3 at all (with any > gstreamer player: Rhythmbox, Banshee, BMP, XMMS )? > > I knew mp3 is not opensource, but SUSE

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 00:42, Russell Jones wrote: > >> You could have done that. >> >> However, I think you'll find it simpler to just add the VLC repository: >> http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#VLC_VideoLan_Client >> > > How would that

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-26五的 18:11 +0800,Zhang Weiwu写道: > ask smartly how to use it; people just turn a way if it's not easy to correct: a way => away (a real hacke says 's/a way/away/') > use. They vote by foot, they vote by paying for Windows. By saying > 'people' I don't mean hackers like you and I. Yes I

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-26五的 09:42 +,Russell Jones写道: > I'm a bit confused by your request, and suggest you read "How To Ask > Questions The Smart Way" http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > I knew very well this article and I am very glad that I have read this article when I first started t

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 26 January 2007 00:42, Russell Jones wrote: > You could have done that. > > However, I think you'll find it simpler to just add the VLC repository: > http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#VLC_VideoLan_Client How would that fix xmms and friends? VLC seems a tad hea

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:57, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > why not just do it again, as mp3 license is not > expensive (as last time I read some article about it). I don't > understand, why suse is removing all these IMPORTANT non-opensource > components step-by-step? Yes, especially when the patent

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Russell Jones
I'm a bit confused by your request, and suggest you read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The place you should have started is not here, but the default home page, http://www.opensuse.org/ . If you search for "mp3", the seventh item or so

Re: [opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
>>> On 26-01-2007 at 10:57, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I belive this has wasted many many (or perhaps thousands) people's hours > and hours on figuring this out. How to play MP3 at all (with any > gstreamer player: Rhythmbox, Banshee, BMP, XMMS )? > > I knew mp3 is not opensour

[opensuse] just don't get it: is it SOOO difficult to play mp3? (worked an hour on it)

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I belive this has wasted many many (or perhaps thousands) people's hours and hours on figuring this out. How to play MP3 at all (with any gstreamer player: Rhythmbox, Banshee, BMP, XMMS )? I knew mp3 is not opensource, but SUSE PAIED TO LET USE USE for-fee software before (SUSE paied to let