[MPlayer-users] trouble seeking mpg123 decoding failed (code 24)

[Dennis New]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 04:17:37 +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 12/3/13, Dennis New <dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 14:01:17 -0500, Dennis New wrote:
> >> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:14:43 -0500, Dennis New wrote:
> >> > With some mp3 files (i.e. some podcasts), sometimes mplayer has
> >> > trouble seeking a few seconds back (or forth), and it seems to
> >> > get stuck in silence, in a loop, with stdout spitting out and
> >> > endless stream of this:
> >> >
> >> > mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24)
> >> >
> >> > I can get out of this loop by randomly/repeatedly trying to seek
> >> > back/forth, and then it magically resumes roughly where I left
> >> > off, but it's very annoying.
> >> >
> >> > (Currently I'm using MPlayer SVN-r36370)
> 
> Try using version that is newer than r36461.
> If you have problem with compiling you can use another decoder as
> workaround. Try "-ac ffmp3,mad, "
> 
> Best Regards.

Thanks for the tips! Those audio codecs do seem to work better, and not
fail miserably while seeking. (I notice that they properly show the
length of mp3 files, while the default mpg123 codec has a runtime that
changes while seeking :s.)