On Wednesday 06 April 2005 17:28, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:59 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:22, Clayton wrote:
I will probably cancel the pre-order and wait to see if they fix this stupidity.
My 9.3 installation plays mp3s just fine, thank you. It's just not in the box, but it's easily remedied, no hassle, and absolutely no need to recompile anything.
Anders,
Quit holding out on us and PLEASE tell us what needs to be done now so we can prepare for it when our 9.3 boxes arrive. Does YOU for 9.3 already contain the fix?
Yes, there are optional packages called 'multimedia packs' on the YOU server now, you can have a look at them. They need to be selected manually, just like the nvidia driver or the MS truetype fonts, and they have a warning attached saying only use if legal in your jurisdiction (or words to that effect)
The MadPenguin article implies that SUSE deliberately compiled all MP3 capable programs without MP3 support; is this not correct?
No, it is incorrect. mp3 support in most programs come from shared libraries. Libraries missing = no support, libraries present = support. There is rarely a need to hard code something like that.
Why was MP3 excluded from 9.3?
No clue, but I would guess it's for legal reasons.