[MPlayer-users] Garbage in audio dumped from internet streams

[RC]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:37:30 -0700
"Nitu Jain" <njain at mobitv.com> wrote:

> I use mplayer to dump audio data from internet streams to /dev/stdout.

> Sometimes, I get static audio (garbled audio) in some of the .pcm
> files.
> 
> What might be causing this garbled audio in mplayer?

Gah!  DON'T DO THAT!

MPlayer is writing it's output to stdout, at the same time it's
outputting the pcm audio to stdout.

Write to a normal file or a fifo, not stdout.