Bug 1050

Summary:	unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD: possible solutions
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Philippe Didier <philippedidier>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	USABILITY
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Philippe Didier 2011-04-29 03:13:42 CEST

Description of problem:
Using livecd as a demo on a computer is fine 
But we can't play mp3 from this computer with amarok... (I know there are patent problem)

I ) Workaround :

1) We must stop and quit Amarok
2) We must use the CCM to install gstreamer-plugin-ugly and dependencies (but we must know that ...)
3) Then we can use Amarok to read mp3

It would be nice to provide this rpm on the liveCD (it's on the core repo... perhaps had to be in tainted ?) : this would be useful for a beginner !


II )Another workaround :

Install phonon-xine and its dependencies
Choose it as engine in multimedia menu

It may be provided on the liveCD instead of phonon-gstreamer (that would be easier for a beginner too !)

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-29 05:01:39 CEST

gstreamer0.10-plugin-ugly was added recently as a suggests in phonon-gstreamer. But indeed it's not on the KDE4 live iso.

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Anne Nicolas 2011-04-29 14:14:39 CEST

Assignee: ennael1 => mageia

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-10 22:34:26 CEST

@ Olivier
@ Philippe

Any news on this bug?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 3 Philippe Didier 2011-10-11 02:55:13 CEST

Same problem with Mageia1 KDE LiveCD but it seems to be an unclear
patent issue !

If you use a LiveCD as a demo, and if you want to show that Mageia is
able to read mp3 files : you must now first that
1) you need to have a working internet access
2) you need to launch CCM
3) you need to launch rpmdrake
4) you need to add sources
5) you need to choose to add gstreamer-plugins-ugly (which allows to
read mp3 files and nevertheless is in core repo but not on the LiveCD ?! )

Then you demonstrate that Mageia is very easy to use for a newbie who
surely must know what is missing and how to install it !!! :(

More seriously : that's not clearly explained when you try to read a mp3
file : there's a quite useless message ...

you may also read this closed bug : Bug 219

   I complained on Mandriva Bugzilla for the same problem since Mandriva
One 2010.0 (liveCD) ; until 2008.1, LiveCD could read mp3 files out of
the box ... for 2009.0 and 2009.1 I don't know : I never could even
correctly boot with those LiveCD freezing )

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-11 07:07:31 CEST

(In reply to comment #3)
> Same problem with Mageia1 KDE LiveCD but it seems to be an unclear
> patent issue !

Removed the version part in the summary, because I understand the problem is in "1", too.

@ Olivier
USABILITY was added as keyword.
If it can't be fixed because of legal issues, is it possible to have some "can't be avoided" explanation on the Live CD's that helps the user to solve this?

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY
Summary: unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions => unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD: possible solutions

Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-20 01:04:31 CET

Source RPM: (none) => draklive-installer

Manuel Hiebel 2011-12-05 19:43:35 CET

Source RPM: draklive-installer => (none)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-03-14 20:17:38 CET

Pinging, because nothing has happened with this report for more than 3 months, it still has the status NEW or REOPENED.

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-08 21:57:45 CEST

works for me with the pre-rc or beta3 since the needed gst-* are there

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED