Ken Mitchell

Introduction

Fedora is a completely open Linux distribution. It’s policy is to not include any non-free or proprietary software with the distribution. This happens to include MP3, and WMV codecs, as well as many others. The open source codecs are actually better to use (flac for example), but not as popular. Sound familiar?

Installing Livna repository

I covered this in a separate article here.

Installing MP3 support

If your music player uses gstreamer (ex. banshee), you can install the plugins for gstreamer like so:
$ yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad

If you’d rather XMMS, use:
yum install xmms-mp3 xmms-faad3

Another couple of plugins I should mention are libid3tag and libmad.
Note:If you have installed the Livna repo but still don’t find the above plugins, try yum –enablerepo install ….

Installing WMV codec support

Fedora 7 ships with totem, but we want to remove that and install the version from the Livna repo, built on a Xine back-end. We’ll also install the Xine nonfree library.
$ yum remove totem*
...
$yum install totem-xine xine-lib-extras-nonfree
...

Now, hopefully, your Fedora supports MP3 and WMV.

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