Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 21:42:10 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Nicolas M Pottier <np27+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MP3 Player for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19970515214210.17028@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <wnLdyMK00iWYMGxkwx@andrew.cmu.edu>; from Nicolas M Pottier on Wed, Apr 23, 1997 at 07:47:36PM -0400 References: <wnLdyMK00iWYMGxkwx@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Nicolas M Pottier:
|Anybody know of one?
|
|I've tried tk3play, but it doesnt seem to link to my tkX libraries
|correctly? Anybody got the binaries for a play that will work?
(I know its been about 3 weeks since your request, but just got to MPEG-3
code/audio surfing tonight :-)
First!, some nice MPEG-3 tests:
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/bitstreams.html (mucho links to cool stuff)
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/thx/thx.mp3
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/thx/thxbway.mp3
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/thx/cimarron.mp3
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/thx/bwaysimp.mp3
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/startrek/trekthem.mp3
(yeah, I kinda like those THX trailers ;-)
And for the MPEG-3 players for FreeBSD (most posted to -questions recently):
-- From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> --
mpg123 v0.59:
plays Layer 1,2,3, plus may play Fraunhofer's layer 2.5
claims to be the fastest Unix MPEG player
available at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~hipp/mpg123.html
amp v0.7.3:
only plays Layer 3 files (.mp3)
available at ftp://ftp.rasip.fer.hr/pub/mpeg/
-- From: Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu> --
maplay+:
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ctsay/mp2win/maplay+.freebsd.zip
(one other poster had troubles on SBPro with this)
-- From: Yun-Ching Lee <ycl+@CMU.EDU> --
splay v0.3:
Plays mpeg (layer 3 and others?) and wave files
Relatively high CPU utilization (70%) on my Cyrix 6x86 133MHz (P166)
I got it from Linux directory on sunsite. It came with a
Pentium-optimized Linux binary, but neither applies to me.
and there's the original Linux mp3play at:
mp3play: ftp://ftp.fhg.de/pub/iis/layer3
Of the above I've tried (in order of preference) mpg123 (my favorite so
far), maplay+, and mp3play.
mpg123 compiles out of the box for FreeBSD. It also uses less CPU than
maplay+. Was using mp3play originally, but its a pain to use (have to wrap
it in a script, have it write .wav to stdout, patch the wav, pipe that to a
wav player, ...). mpg123 and maplay+ are stand-alone, so no need for that
mess anymore.
Randall
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