I’m wondering why codec hamdling on Fedora is quite complicates. Even if Fedora has adopted integrated system like Totem (for Gnome) or DragonPlayer (for KDE), a lot of useful codecs are missing due to “fight for Opensource” reasons.

Fedora 12, in fact, leaks of such needed audio plugins for famous gstreamer engine. So we need to install it manually by (as root)

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree

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2 Responses to “Fedora 12 and audio problems (on YouTube too)”

  • sagana says:

    Utile grazie, i neofiti di Fedora saranno contenti, ci sono sempre così pochi di questi post!
    In ogni caso in questi giorni dopo gli aggiornamenti non riesco più a riprodurre gli .ogg con xine, ma solo con gstreamer, un po’ strano… capita anche a te?
    A presto ;)

  • sarace says:

    Mi dispiace, non uso xine ma gstreamer (sebbene abbia un desktop KDE). Xine, per certi versi, è anche più incasinato di gstreamer nella gestione dei codec…

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