Friday, July 31, 2009

Add MP3 support in Fedora

Unfortunately Fedora cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer.
Adding MP3 support to your fedora installation is a simple process. The steps are as below:
(a) Launch terminal and issue command "su" and enter the root password.
(b) copy and paste the following command and press enter:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
(c) once the above command finishes, issue the following command:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
(d) Now, Install all other plug ins..
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree

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