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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?
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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