[5615] in testers
Re: mpg123 quit working on old hardware.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jul 3 18:22:58 2003
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:22:55 -0400
Message-Id: <200307032222.SAA02742@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
CC: cfox@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, lcs@MIT.EDU, rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1057268830.4467.30.camel@tokata.mit.edu> (message from Bill
Cattey on 03 Jul 2003 17:47:11 -0400)
>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.
Indeed. The infoagents locker's version of mpg123 is fairly old and
crufty. Up until 9.1, we included mpg321 in the athena linux release,
which at least provided command-line users with a good mp3 player.
It's easy to build; I can probably help rbasch get a new version into the
infoagents locker soonish.
