Re: [opensuse] Problems withMP3 codecs and banshee on Opensuse 10.3

On Thursday 03 January 2008 09:30:23 Ian wrote:
On Thursday 03 January 2008 09:22:28 Sloan wrote:
Ian wrote:
Hi,
I've been setting up some new computers with 10.3 and I've used
http://suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=26104 to install support for
MP3 etc (using the Gnome link since that's what's on the machines!).
I've also done a full update of the software to the latest versions as
part of the installation.
Now Banshee won't play MP3 files (though RealPlayer does play them).

<snip>

My system at home still plays MP3s in Banshee, but then I'm running KDE

You're running kde and instead of amarok, you use banshee? (scratches
head...)

No, but I actually installed both KDE & Gnome on my home computer so I
could play with GNOME when I want to. On these other machines, there is
only Gnome.

it
started life as a 10.2 install which has been upgraded to 10.3, whereas
the new machines are a totally fresh install of 10.3).

My 10.3 systems are all fresh installs and up to date, and play all the
usual multimedia - but I merely added the packman repo and then added
the apps I wanted (amarok, xine, mplayer, kaffeine, w32codecs) rather
than the blind "one-click" method.

Joe

Further investigation today has shown the problem was actually nothing to do
with MP3 files - oops!
The problem is actually that Banshee can't play files from an SMB
share 'mounted' in Nautilus because it's not really mounted, it's just an
smb:// URL that Banshee can't access. Real Player can access smb:// urls so
it can play the files. All the MP3 files I was trying to play were on a
windows machine I was accessing via this method.

Cheers,
--
Ian
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