Play mp3 using Python, PyQt, and Phonon

Question

I been trying all day to figure out the Qt\'s Phonon library with Python.

My long term goal is to see if I could get it to play a mms:// stream, but since I can\'t find

Answer 1

Phonon supports different audio file formats on different platforms, using the system's own support for media formats, so it could be that your system doesn't provide libraries for playing MP3 files. Certainly, MP3 is not supported out of the box on some Linux distributions. If you are using Linux, please take a look at the following page for information about enabling MP3 support:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/phonon-overview.html#linux

Another way to diagnose problems with Phonon's media formats is to run the Capabilities example provided with Qt:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8///qt-phonon-capabilities-example.html

This should tell you which media formats are supported by your system.