[TriLUG] mp3 support in Red Hat Linux 8.0

[Greg Brown]

RH still makes a fine server.  I'm running 7.1 on a PIII at work as my 
primary pop mail server.  I installed it as an emergency outgoing SMTP 
server during The Great Lucent Exchange Crash and it's still up and 
running (only now with about 50 pop users).  For stuff like that RH 
rocks.  Last time I checked my uptime on this server it was at six 
months or so.  That's stable, in my book.  I'd upgrade the server to 
8.0 but frankly I'm afraid to.  The thing just works great like it is.

It's still a bummer about the mp3 support.  I guess I can see why RH 
didn't include it if there was an issue with paying $.75 per license.  
That said, I would like to see some "unofficial documentation" about 
how to get the mp3 stuff to work with RH 8.0.

RH was never really my desktop solution so I guess I won't miss mp3 
support.  I wonder what Apple is going to do with OS X if the mp3 issue 
raises it's ugly head with them.

If anyone at RH wants a good challenge then I have one for you.  Here's 
what I want:

"Fix"  my Zapmedia Zapstation (http://www.zapmedia.com) so that:

1.  it runs RH
2.  it uses a mozilla browser that does not connect to any one 
particular website first (i.e. just a regular mozilla browser that I 
can type any URL into and comes up with the initial page as 
file://something/whatever/blahblah/index.html or whatever)
3. can play oog files
4. supports ssh so I can access the zapstation remotely
5. runs Samba so I can mount windows shares (to expand disk space past 
the 30 gig internal drive limit)
6. still plays DVD movies via the internal DVD player
7. still  uses the wireless keyboad, blah blah, and
8. still outputs video via RCA or S-Video and outputs sound via the RCA 
jacks.
9. oh yeah, have some way to access the command line from the GUI 
(displayed on the TV)

Any takers?

Greg



On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 17:17 America/New_York, Matt Wilson wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:48:26PM -0400, Ken Mink wrote:
>>
>> P.S. Someone at RedHat needs to be bitch slapped for removing mp3
>> support from xmms on rh8. After installing a new version of the OS, I
>> wasn't expecting a lack of mp3 support to be the reason my mp3s 
>> wouldn't
>> play. That one took a while to diagnose.
>
> I hope you realize that people from Red Hat do read this list.
> Messages like this certainly don't give me warm fuzzies.  It certainly
> doesn't make me favor your point of view.
>
> *sigh*
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
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