Comment 6 for bug 18798

(In reply to comment #3)

The sentence should explicitly mention that patents on the mp3 en/decoding
algorithms that are the issue here. Since many people consider a computer that
does not play mp3s to be broken, the error message should give a pointer to a
fix (e.g. apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins). This fix should make mp3
capability available to all applications, I do not know if the Realplayer
solution will do this.

A quick google search will of course also find a fix, but that is less user
friendly, especially for people who are new to linux. This is of course assuming
that people do not care about mp3 patents.

chl