Hi

The amarok 1.3 RPM packages were made available on RHN so I grabbed these to see if it would fix the libxml2.la issues reported in another thread (http://amarok.kde.org/component/option, ... 4/catid,8/)

Well, it did as amarok now starts ok and builds the collection. Unfortunately I can\'t play mp3s due to missing libraries (I get the notice about not having Ogg and MP3 libs).
This doesn\'t seem to make sense as I have installed all the gstreamer plugins (from the gstreamer repo) and run gst-register

$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0.8.10-1
gstreamer-plugins-video-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-devel-0.8.10-1
gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-ffmpeg-debuginfo-0.8.5-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-python-0.8.2-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-python-debuginfo-0.8.2-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-plugins-audio-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-plugins-extra-video-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-tools-0.8.10-1
gstreamer-plugins-extra-debuginfo-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.6-2.2.fc4
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4
gstreamer-plugins-debuginfo-0.8.10-0.gst.1.4

$ rpm -qa | grep libmad
libmad-0.15.1b-3.2.fc4

Using the Helix Player engine results in the same problem....

Me thinks Redhat don\'t ship an amarok package that allows mp3 playback, although I have compiled 1.3 from source on a FC3 box.

gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio apparently includes the mp3 library.

Can anyone help or make suggestions?

Thanks
James

Try using the Helix Engine configured to use Real Player.

Or actually try installing the gstreamer plugin for mad.

Hi eean

I guess you are meaning the source from here? http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/module ... ugins.html

Thanks for your help.

James

Hi

I installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3 from livna FC4 repo but no luck. When I run gst-register i get \"137 plugins with 470 features installed\" message
mad does not seem to be in the list, I have libmad installed as the latest version.

When I try to compile from source the ./configure for gst-plugins-0.8.10 comes back saying mad will not be built.

I\'m guessing now that gstreamer just can\'t find libmad on my system.
$gst-inspect mad
returns
\" no such element or plugin \'mad\' \".

This is very frustrating - this should be easier. Surely installing a media player can\'t be this difficult.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

It isn\'t. But you chose a **** distro that doesn\'t have mp3 support easily. Go ask on a Fedora forum or google.

Well, this is really weird. I\'ve also got Kaffeine 0.7 installed which has an option to use gstreamer as an engine.
The mp3 plays fine! So I guess my distro isn\'t that **** after all.

Has redhat switched off mp3 output in their amarok 1.3 package via RHN?

I\'m happy compiling amarok 1.3 from source but then I get the missing libxml2.la error... which I haven\'t solved.

Well eean, I\'m asking it here (and Fedora and Google). If anyone can be of assistance that would be great.

Just to point out that Amarok 1.3 ran fine on FC3.

Thanks for your assistance.

eean wrote:

It isn\'t. But you chose a **** distro that doesn\'t have mp3 support easily. Go ask on a Fedora forum or google.

Hi

This is fixed.. on the weekend I backed up and installed from scratch as follows:

* Installed off Fedora Core 4 DVD iso
* Added the freshrpms, gstreamer and kde-redhat repos to yum
* Installed kde* and gstreamer* from these repos, plus dependencies like libmad lame, xine, helix etc etc plus -devel packages as well (took a while)
* Didn\'t installed gst-plugins-mp3 as that conflicts with gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
* compiled & installed Amarok 1.3 from source.
* gst-register as root and user
* run amarok
* play music via gstreamer

When compiling from source the libxml2.la dependency went away as well.

If you see mad in the list after running gst-register then you have mp3 support.

$ gst-register | less
/mad


So it looks like the problems that I and other users have been having may be due to issues upgrading FC4 over an old FC3. (possibly different compilers?)

Hope this helps out FC4 users of amarok.. the coolest player around.

Cheers
James