[MPlayer-users] Early EoF for MP3

[Benoît Thébaudeau]

Hi all,

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:13:01 PM, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> On Monday, October 15, 2012 11:53:48 PM, Jerry wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:12:03 +0200 (CEST)
> > Benoît Thébaudeau articulated:
> > 
> > > Note that for the same MP3 file, the actual stop position depends
> > > on
> > > the platform, the worst case being Windows and the best case
> > > being
> > > Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Could you be a little more specific? Perhaps you could send me one
> > of
> > these problem MP3 files.
> 
> Done.
> 
> > I use either ITunes or the Windows Media
> > Player
> > on my Windows platforms and they have certainly not exhibited any
> > problem.
> 
> How are they related to MPlayer?
> 
> > On my FreeBSD systems with MPlayer installed, I have also
> > not
> > encountered any problems. I don't have MPlayer installed on my
> > Windows
> > systems since I see no need for it. Perhaps this problem is
> > localized
> > to
> > your system which I might add you seem to have forgotten to
> > specify.
> 
> I am having this issue with MPlayer (from command line) on:
>  - an embbedded Linux device (the sample MP3 stops at 7.8/8.0 with
>  libmad),
>  - Ubuntu 2012.04 with the latest MPlayer (built from the official
>  website, not
>    Ubuntu's package) (the sample MP3 stops at 7.9/8.0 with libmad),
>  - Windows 7 with the latest MPlayer from SMPlayer (the sample MP3
>  stops at
>    7.1/8.0 with libmad, 7.3/8.0 with ffmp3).
> 
> Using libmad as the decoder seems to worsen things compared to other
> MP3
> decoders.

Can anyone duplicate this issue? Any idea about its cause?

Best regards,
Benoît