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[Scott]

On Friday 06 October 2006 06:39 am, Alexander Jacob Tsykin
(stsykin at gmail.com) spake thusly:

> On Friday 06 October 2006 19:31, Chanchao wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 03:16 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
>> > These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional
>> > proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available
>> > free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it
>> > works the way you want it to."
>> >
>> > "the right to modify" ~~ Software Libre.
>>
>> This is getting pretty philosophical.. In rigidly pursuing absolute
>> Freedom, people can't play their music without jumping through
>> hoops..
>>
>> Chanchao
> Not really. It's not as if it's difficult to set up, even for a
> complete newbie. There are plenty of guides available on the web.

Well first of thanks to Adobe flash is mostly useless and will be for
several months.

And I've followed the guides all over the web (including those in the
wiki) and the highly touted GStreamer is useless to me (I'm running
Edgy).  totem-gstreamer works but totem-mozilla does not. I get errors
on every site I land on with (non-flash) video (unfortunately 99% of
those are Windows Media).  I've installed every gstreamer plugin and
nothing helps.

So I guess it's back to the tried-and true MPlayer (which btw, is not
part of the default install and it really should be).

And then there's  Sound Juicer (GStreamer engine).  I've Googled the
subject to death and have yet to find a GStreamer equivalent to:

"lame --preset
extreme --tt %{title} --ta %{artist} --tl %{albumtitle} --ty %{year}/
 --tn %{number} --tg %{genre} %f %o"

Specifically it's the "--preset extreme" part that's been a problem.

But I digress...

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        Scott
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