User talk:Apokryphos

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[edit] opensuse-community, what do tuo want do do?

Hi, I know that you are the site-admin of there, and i want to ask to you, what you want do wih this site? For now there are fery few users, because I think the site is no attractive, there is to complete infact the participate page, which is very important.

Aptending you repling.

Vincenzo

[edit] Reference to mad application removed

I am somewhat puzzled as to why the reference to the application mad was removed from an update I made to the wiki. Granted my contribution may not have been in line with the format desired (albeit I tried to match the format), but I believe that newbie users who follow the mp3 advice given on the wiki as it stands today 29/01/07 (and simply installing libxine from Packman) will find their packman xine still will not work for mp3. I believe that one also must install the application mad from packman. http://packman.links2linux.org/package/mad Note: mad is not now, and has not been as long as I can remember, a dependency of libxine. Hence I believe it should specifically be mentioned for mp3, else I am concerned the libxine advice given will not work. oldcpu.

To add some context here, here is my post from oldcpu's User:talk page:

Hi there! Your user contributions are greatly valued, and there's many things there that we needed to get on the page, so I'd just like to thank you for all of those, truly. :) With regard to the mad package, it isn't required for MP3 playback with Amarok's xine engine presuming you have the libxine1 package, for sure. The only mad dependency Amarok would have is if you're installing the Amarok package from Guru, since Guru's Amarok is built with libtunepimp-mad support (libtunepimp-mad depends on mad), and hence it would bring it in, with several other things. Let me know if anything's unclear, or if you like you can ping me whenever on IRC (apokryphos on Freenode). See you. --Apokryphos 03:33, 2 February 2007 (PST)

(oldcpu) I've learned now from (apokryphos) that mad is not required, if one keeps the SuSE packaged amarok and installs the Packman packaged libxine. Most interesting. This has my curiousity perked, and I hope either this or next weekend to downgrade the audio on a test pc, and see how far one can go (in installing both SuSE packaged applications, and 3rd party applications) without mad, and still have mp3 audio work (with only packman's packaged libxine as a basis). Most interesting.