From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: xmms xmms-1.2.7-12.p refuses to load an mp3 file for playback. When you think you have selected a file, pressing play opens the file dialog again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Load redhat null from ISOs in a workstation configuration 2.Update everthing from RHN using up2date as of 9/29/2002 3.Start xmms, refuses to load file. Actual Results: Refuses to accept files selected via the dialog box. Double clicking on a mp3 file in Nautilus doesn't work either. Expected Results: Track title should apprear in xmms window. Additional info: Reverted to xmms from null ISO (1.2.7-10). This one works. I can play MP3 files under Gnome from a fully updated Null installation, but only with the slightly older xmms.
Intentional, mp3 support has been removed due to patent issues and conflicts between patent licenses and the licenses of the decoder code.
If this is intentional, any chance we can have a notification rather than just silent failure?
More about MP3 licensing can be found at the following site : http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html
*** Bug 73265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
According to www.xmms.org, the Thomson Multimedia license has *not* changed. Do you still think it's a problem? I see that you are still supplying the mpg123 package. Will that package be removed as well?