[5613] in testers
Re: mpg123 quit working on old hardware.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Jul 3 17:47:14 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: <1057005989.29401.18.camel@tokata.mit.edu>
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Date: 03 Jul 2003 17:47:11 -0400
I think the correct statement of this problem is:
1. There's a mozilla problem: .mp3 media has no default app.
I was used to a previous .mp3 integration where .mp3 files would start
mpg123 and mpg123ctl. Apparently I forgot to test that integration when
we went to mozilla in the first place.
2. mpg123 in the infoagents locker is old and buggy.
When run by hand mpg123 works on my test manners.mp3 file, but didnt
work on the mp3 sample from a-cappella.com. I guess there's something
that is in newer mp3 files that old mpg123 does not like.
Perhaps the correct solution to this is to set a default app of
realplayer for mp3 content, and to remove mpg123 and mpg123ctl from
infoagents. (Though mpg123ctl was damned useful in its day, and worked
nicely when we had mp3 files in electronic reserves.)
-wdc
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:46, Bill Cattey wrote:
> 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!
>
>
