Re: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-09 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Troy, et al., After playing around with this at home over the weekend (sparing you all the number of frustrating iterations I went thru... :-), turns out all I needed was the two that Troy originally suggested, gstreamer-plugins-mp3 and xmms-mp3. However, with those 2, I still was never able to

Re: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread Franchisseur Robert
-- Le (On) 2009-06-05 -0600 à (at) 15:08:53 Stephen John Smoogen écrivit (wrote): -- > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > > Hi Troy, > > > > Thanks, but no joy. > > Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence > > of events occurs - Helix fires up but a

RE: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread Alex Kruchkoff
: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: MP3s on SL4.6 Hi Troy, Thanks, but no joy. Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away saying I need RealPlayer. This doesn't need a reboot does it? T

Re: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: > Hi Troy, > > Thanks, but no joy. > Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence > of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away > saying I need RealPlayer.  This doesn't need a reboot does it? No

Re: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Hi Troy, Thanks, but no joy. Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away saying I need RealPlayer. This doesn't need a reboot does it? Then I tried saving the MP3 file and double-clicked on it. This time

Re: MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread Troy Dawson
P. Larry Nelson wrote: Hi, I've always done linux admin on just servers, so I've never needed to know about such things as playing MP3 files on linux. Well, now I've got a user with a fully patched SL4.6 laptop and is trying to get an MP3 file to play. Go to a web page with an MP3 sample and c

MP3s on SL4.6

2009-06-05 Thread P. Larry Nelson
Hi, I've always done linux admin on just servers, so I've never needed to know about such things as playing MP3 files on linux. Well, now I've got a user with a fully patched SL4.6 laptop and is trying to get an MP3 file to play. Go to a web page with an MP3 sample and click on it. A dialog box