yes, finally mp3 sound on my powerbook!

[nikolisin]

Well, it was dissapointing to do without sound in YDL 4.0 and my powerbook. ok, actually the sound detection tool find the soundcard, load the module snd_powermac and the testsound played succesfully.
But in KDE there wan't sound and even worse, there was definitely no mp3 support. The solution have to be:

Gstreamer with an mp3 plugin and OSS output
Amarok which use gstreamer

ok, here we go, this it the success story. I unpack following packages in /usr/local/src :

libid3tag-0.15.1b
libmad-0.15.1b
gstreamer-0.8.9
gst-plugins-0.8.8
taglib-1.3.1
amarok-1.2.3

With google it's a question of minutes to find and download the .tar.gz packages. The dependencies are:
Amarok needs taglib and gstreamer
gstreamer need gst-plugins for different sound options
mp3 support in gst-plugins come from libmad
libmad requires libid3tag

Therefore I went into every subdirectory in the same order as listed above and executed every time the same commands:

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1. configure --prefix=/usr/local
2. make
3. su -p  (specify root password)
4. make install

Before of the configure step of gst-plugins I had to set an environment variable:

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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

the reason is that gst-plugins and amarok won't find gstreamer automatically.
After the installation procedures I assured that KDEDIRS was correctly set:

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export KDEDIRS=/usr/local:/usr

(this has to be done permanently, best in ~/.bashrc)
For activating this KDE application in /usr/local (which is not the standard KDE-Path:/usr) I had to call:

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kbuildsycoca

Finally I activated gstreamer with:

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gst-register

Then I started amarok, configured the sound-system to gstreamer and ossink and enjoy listening mp3 sound ))
regards
harald

[microjackson]

hello
i just installed ydl 4.0.1 on my pb pismo.
what a suprise when i heard the test sounds play through my internal speaker!
with os9 and osX my internal speakers never worked, i assumed this was a physical problem, but i guess not!

still haven't tried playing mp3s yet, but thanks for the instructions on how to install!

dennis