CentOS - Sep 2005 - Safe to use gstreamer repository for RH or Fedora?

I'd like to install "Gstreamer" so that I can get MP3 support in
Rhythmbox. At least, I'm led to believe MP3 support comes with
installing Gstreamer from Rhythmbox's FAQ.

But when I get to the Gstreamer download page:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/

... it says:

"Do not compile from source yourself unless you are certain you have to
or want to"

Okay, fine. So I look for an RPM. But it doesn't have those, it only has
repositories for Fedora and Red Hat.

A while back I messed up my system by installing repositories for
Fedora, so I'm wary of doing that kind of thing again.

I tried a YUM search for gstreamer to see if it was available on DAG,
but no luck there.

Does this mean I fall into the category of compiling myself because I
have to? The warning on the web site makes it sound like this is
something for experts to do.

Dave

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:41:58PM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened
us:
> I'd like to install "Gstreamer" so that I can get MP3 support
in
> Rhythmbox. At least, I'm led to believe MP3 support comes with
> installing Gstreamer from Rhythmbox's FAQ.
> 
> But when I get to the Gstreamer download page:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/
> 
> ... it says:
> 
> "Do not compile from source yourself unless you are certain you have
to
> or want to"
> 
> Okay, fine. So I look for an RPM. But it doesn't have those, it only
has
> repositories for Fedora and Red Hat.
> 
> A while back I messed up my system by installing repositories for
> Fedora, so I'm wary of doing that kind of thing again.
> 
> I tried a YUM search for gstreamer to see if it was available on DAG,
> but no luck there.
> 
> Does this mean I fall into the category of compiling myself because I
> have to? The warning on the web site makes it sound like this is
> something for experts to do.
> 
gstreamer is already part of the base CentOS 4 install. 

yum list "*gstreamer*"

It may be that mp3 support was ripped out by upstream to avoid legal issues,
but that may be resolved by a few packages available from dag such as
gstreamer-ffmpeg.

Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

I had the same kind of problems with java and finally
find a solution here it is

http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/stanton_finley/fc3_note/#Java

create link as follows and will work for mozilla and
firefox. The only way soft link does work is this way.
so do like this:

ln -s
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so


--- Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to install "Gstreamer" so that I can get
> MP3 support in
> Rhythmbox. At least, I'm led to believe MP3 support
> comes with
> installing Gstreamer from Rhythmbox's FAQ.
> 
> But when I get to the Gstreamer download page:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/
> 
> ... it says:
> 
> "Do not compile from source yourself unless you are
> certain you have to
> or want to"
> 
> Okay, fine. So I look for an RPM. But it doesn't
> have those, it only has
> repositories for Fedora and Red Hat.
> 
> A while back I messed up my system by installing
> repositories for
> Fedora, so I'm wary of doing that kind of thing
> again.
> 
> I tried a YUM search for gstreamer to see if it was
> available on DAG,
> but no luck there.
> 
> Does this mean I fall into the category of compiling
> myself because I
> have to? The warning on the web site makes it sound
> like this is
> something for experts to do.
> 
> Dave
> 
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