GStreamer MP3 Plugins @ Multimedia Repository

Submitted by Murray Blakeman on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 15:56

GStreamer LogoThe Free GStreamer MP3 Plugins are now available from my repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906. These plugins can be used to play and encode MP3 files. The plugins required for ID3 Tag manipulation are also provided.

Although I have packaged MBLgst-plugin-mad for playing MP3 files, I would highly recommend you use the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin. Better still, the complete set of Fluendo GStreamer Plugins are fantastic.

The plugins I've made available are

  • MBLgst-plugin-lame
    lame : L.A.M.E. MP3 encoder
  • MBLgst-plugin-mad
    mad: mad MP3 Decoder
    id3mux: ID3 Tag Muxer
  • MBLgst-plugin-mpegaudioparse
    mp3parse: MPEG1 Audio Parser
    xingmux: MP3 Xing muxer
  • MBLgst-plugin-taglib
    id3v2mux: TagLib-based ID3v2 Muxer
    apev2mux: TagLib-based APEv2 Muxer
  • MBLgst-plugin-mp3
    MBLgst-plugin-lame
    MBLgst-plugin-mad
    MBLgst-plugin-mpegaudioparse
    MBLgst-plugin-taglib

Simply install MBLgst-plugin-mp3 to get all of the plugins and required dependencies.

To make an MP3 file compatible with Totem, Rhythmbox and EasyTAG 2.1, I use the following GStreamer Pipeline in Sound Juicer.

"audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc quality=0 bitrate=192 ! id3mux v1-tag=true v2-tag=true"

To add the repository to your OpenSolaris installation and install the plugins, do the following.

  1. "pkg set-authority -O http://ips.homeunix.com:10906 ips.homeunix.com" to add repository.
  2. "pkg refresh --full" to update catalog.
  3. "pkg install MBLgst-plugin-mp3" to install plugins.

If you have any problems leave a comment or send me an email (mblakeman@netspace.net.au).

Have fun :-)

Oh man, thank you!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:19.

Hey, thank you for the codecs!

Man, you save my life! Goooood Job!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 11:15.

Why Opensolaris is so hard with codecs?

I installed Opensolaris today (yes, today! I removed Ubuntu and installed Opensolaris!), and i was searching for codecs since evening... so, thank you so much, and yeah... i dont speak english so well, but i try, and i dont used tradutors! Thanks and good job!

Thank you, Murray))

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 12:00.

Great job.
My Car-hifi doesn't support *.ogg.
You helped me a lot, because I didn't have to figure out what I need, which deps and so forth, and to build the plugins myself.

AWESOME!

Martin Bochnig