[MPlayer-users] mpg123: Can't rewind stream

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 01:48, The Wanderer wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 
> >On 11/21/06, Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >>On my FC5 system, I am getting a "mpg123: Can't rewind stream"
> >>error when playing audio files, specifically mp3's, and they all
> >>sound like static.
> >
> >mpg123 != mplayer
> 
> This is true, but the error message he quoted is printed by mp3lib,
> which is - or at least can be - used by MPlayer to decode MP3s. If you'd
> looked at the actual MPlayer output which he included in his post, you'd
> have seen that the error message is in fact there.
> 
> >>I yum'ed the MPlayer 1.0rc1 package from greysector.
> 
> Third-party packages are generally not supported on these mailing lists;
> non-development versions are also often not supported, although rc1 is
> recent enough that it's a bit less likely to be rejected out of hand.

Check your facts. Greysector is my repository and the packages are supported.

> >>Any ideas? I have tried oss and alsa
> 
> Try one of the other codecs listed by 'mplayer -ac help' as supportimg
> MP3. ffmp3 is fairly good, and where it fails I've had success with
> libmad. If ffmp3 does the job, then it'd probably be safe to put '-afm
> ffmpeg,' in your config file and consider the matter done with.
> 
> That doesn't address the question of why it actually happens, of course,
> but it should be a way to avoid the problem.

It's a known problem already fixed in SVN. It will be fixed in the official
packages, too.

Regards,
R.

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