Bug 116434

Summary: amaroK cannot play mp3 files
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Ulrich Lange <email>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_5jFyFBvk-I, usovalx
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Ulrich Lange 2005-09-12 07:30:59 UTC 
if you klick on a mp3 file amaroK shows the titel for less than a second and
than the message "Playlist finished" is shown for 4 second. Konqueror Meta Info
shows:
Bitrate:      128 kbps
Length:       4:09 min
Sample rate:  20,050 Hz
Channels:     2
Version:      MPEG 2.0
Layer:        3
Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-12 12:31:35 UTC 
which engine is installed? xine? helix?
Comment 2 Ulrich Lange 2005-09-12 20:53:35 UTC 
Xine engine version 1 Framework 10 is installed. There is no other opportunity
for another engine.
Comment 3 Larry Fishburne 2005-09-13 00:12:10 UTC 
I have the same problem. I have a soundblaster 5.1.
Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 06:51:31 UTC 
ok, thats how it is supposed to behave then. without helix engine you won't 
get mp3 support.  
 
alternatively you need xine-mad, which for legal reasons we can't ship with 
opensuse (which you probably have installed).
Comment 5 Ulrich Lange 2005-09-13 08:22:34 UTC 
How it comes that it is to read in some news, that mp3 is supported in RC1
(www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/63749 by example). 
The acceptance of the Linux OS goes down if elementary things like mp3 are not
supported by default.
amaroK and konquror suggested that there is a mp3 support and than that. Sorry,
but we need a solution for it.
Comment 6 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 08:27:22 UTC 
Novell Legal is working on it. SUSE most likely will have mp3 support, 
opensuse doesn't have it AFAIK.  
 
Its really a legal/licensing problem and not a technical one, can't do 
anything about it.
Comment 7 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-13 08:29:42 UTC 
ah, and be assured: we know that not having mp2/mp3/dvd support sucks, and its 
very often discussed
Comment 8 Ulrich Lange 2005-09-13 08:57:44 UTC 
Some things cannot be mentioned enough.
Comment 9 Daniel Wolstenholme 2005-09-27 03:18:08 UTC 
Yep.  If you're not going to support the things almost everyone wants to have 
by default in a computer these days, what's the point of even bothering? 
 
Can't you just relocate SUSE to another country where they still have freedom 
(i.e. Europe) and forget about the patent mess that way?  Everything was fine 
until Novell had to buy SUSE.
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-27 06:53:58 UTC 
*** Bug 118972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Stephan Kulow 2005-11-29 10:30:12 UTC 
*** Bug 135802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***