Playing mp3 and other codecs on Fedora

With the merger of livna, freshrpms and dribble as rpmfusion things got better on Fedora. If you were having an eye on the ubuntu systems for their ease of installation with respect to codecs, we have a breakthrough in Fedora systems.

Well here is a screenshot tour of how the enabling of rpmfusion makes things easier on our parts.

Assume I wanted to play 01 Jethro Tull – Living in The Past.mp3 file.

The moment I click on the file totem media player opens with this window.

Now if you have not enabled the rpmfusion repo you will not get the following options but others which you might end up paying for. With rpmfusion enabled the following appears.

And the next

Thus the download begins…

The installation proceeds and finally I can listen to Tull at peace.

All this time I mentioned about “enabling the rpmfusion repo”. Some might just ask how to do it. Follow one of the steps below.

1. Go to this link http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

2. Follow the rules given there, you could either choose the graphical method or the command line.

This works with Fedora 10 and 11. I am not sure if it works on 9 as I have not tested it and will not work on 8 as it does not use Package Kit.

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Published:: April 25, 2009 / 7:26 am

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I Was Able to Lose T h i r t y P o u n d s in Only a Month 5.6.09 / 3am

Hi, interesting post. I have been pondering this issue,so thanks for posting. I will probably be subscribing to your blog. Keep up great writing

What to expect from Fedora 11 « /bin/bash 5.13.09 / 10am

[...] into the system of Fedora things have become very impressive especially in installing codecs. My previous post describes how additional codecs can be easily detected and installed with minimum configuration, [...]

Billgoldberg 6.11.09 / 6pm

Too bad this doesn’t work in KDE.

Ali Almahdi 6.15.09 / 8pm

Which theme are you using?

Ranjeev Satyajit 6.16.09 / 12am

Its been a while since I have used it. It was a modification of Dust Aurora with echo icons.

Deb 6.16.09 / 4pm

I am having a big problem playing my ipod songs. I have rythmbox installed and it does ask to search for plugins but eventually says that it couldn’t find any. This is in Fedora 11. Am i missing something?

Ranjeev Satyajit 6.16.09 / 4pm

Did you install the rpmfusion repo?
Install rpmfusion repository to get media codes like mp3 and dvd playback. Go to http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration to install it. After installing / configuring it Package Kit will automatically probe and download codecs for the media you are trying to play.

1. ein1 8.30.09 / 11am
  
  MAN!!!!
  YOU SAFE MY LIFE:)))) THANKS A LOT!!!!

Irv 6.26.09 / 7pm

Man I COULD KISS YOU!!! I was about to smash my laptop on the ground out of frustration, looking EVERYWHERE for those codecs and libs I needed to play my MP3, since Amarok and Banshee just remained “idle” whenever I hit “play”. Thanks a lot!!!.

As you can see, I’m a newbie to Fedora, but have been a Kubuntu user for quite some time now. Thanks again.

Ranjeev Satyajit 6.28.09 / 1am

Glad I could be of some assistance. Let me know what were the difficulties in using fedora. I’ll come up with an article on those topics.

Maxime Bely 7.27.09 / 1pm

Thanks a lot. It worked perfectly!

phoxis 8.4.09 / 1pm

Good job done.

douglas 10.13.09 / 1am

os nomes dos pacotes ajudaram bastante. só faltou dizer como faz para baixar pelo yum.

“the names of packages help me so much. just missed to show how do to download using yum”

su -
senha:******************

[root@myPCname ~]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i586

thanks

Ruslan 10.19.09 / 4am

I have ben instaled plugin from console with dependens
# yum install gstreamer-plugin*

Venkata Rama Krishna Boddu 11.13.09 / 2am

Good Job, Keep it up

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