[Qt-interest] Phonon plugins Linux vs Windows

[Jens Bache-Wiig]

Miguel Cardenas wrote:
> Hello and happy 2009 for all of you
> 
> I have a doubt... have compiled Qt 4.4.3 for both Linux and Windows with 
> phonon support... testing the example programs the windows version shows 
> lots of codecs while linux shows only 3 or 4... where or how can I 
> get/add plugins to linux so it can play at least mp3 files?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Miguel Cardenas

This depends on your linux distribution and current backend. If you 
compiled Qt yourself, chances are you are using the GStreamer backend.
Due to legal concerns most distros only ship with a few plugins and 
require you to enable external or unsupported repositories to gain 
support for commercial media codecs such as mp3. There are most likely a 
lot of pages explaining how to do this if you search for "mp3 support" 
with you particular version of linux.

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Jens Bache-Wiig - jbache at trolltech.com
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