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Re: mpg123 quit working on old hardware.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jun 30 16:46:31 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu, lcs@mit.edu, rbasch@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200306301926.h5UJQfS4030928@red-herring.mit.edu>
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Date: 30 Jun 2003 16:46:30 -0400
Interesting. madplay worked.
I've done a little more testing. I KNOW
http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/poetry/manners.mp3 worked in the past, so I
used that as a test case.
Repeat by:
Go to: http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/poetry/songs.html
click on "Music" link associated with the poem "Manners".
Old behavior:
Watch as mpg123 window would pop up to control the song.
Current behavior:
No indication of anything happening on screen.
Silence.
Note that if I do:
mpg123 ~/www/poetry/manners.mp3
I get:
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title : Manners Artist: Bill Cattey
Album : Year : 2001
Comment: Genre : Speech
Directory: /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/w/d/wdc/www/poetry/
Playing MPEG stream from manners.mp3 ...
Junk at the beginning 49443303
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
So there are probably a couple subtle things that are going on, but the
net result is that people are going to get unexpected silence and lack
of visual indication of anything happening.
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 15:26, Camilla R Fox wrote:
> The player 'madplay' in the outland locker seems to be a little more
> tolerant of bad mp3 files; I'm not certain if what you're seeing (or
> the one I have) is a player bug or a legitimately bad file.
>
> -Camilla
Original Note:
From:
Bill Cattey
<wdc@MIT.EDU>
To:
testers@mit.edu
Subject:
mpg123 quit
working on
old
hardware.
Date:
30 Jun 2003
13:31:13
-0400
Perhaps it's an artifact of the mp3 file, but I just tried to
play an mp3 using mpg123 on my Dell Optiplex running 9.2.7. This used
to work.
Now I get:
tokata.mit.edu% mpg123 /tmp/fourvoices-nononora.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Directory: /tmp/
Playing MPEG stream from fourvoices-nononora.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbit/s, 44100 Hz mono
No supported rate found!
