From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 11:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD7237C3FD for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29007; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA36664; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007031847.LAA36664@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000702231843.B1606@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:47:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Rahul Siddharthan Subject: Re: How do you people listen to mp3s? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Generic Player Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Jul-00 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I haven't tried it with 4.0, but mpg123 works very well with > 3.4-stable. I haven't tried any GUI programs though (could never > get them to work with linux either, which is what they were > supposedly written for). gqmpeg works well with mpg123. However, the original poster's problem sounds like a sound driver issue, not an application issue. It would probably be fixed by upgrading to 4.0-stable, which has better sound support. It would also be most helpful if he/she would tell us what sound card he/she is using. > Generic Player said on Jul 2, 2000 at 13:40:10: >> I can't manage to find an mp3 player that works under freebsd >> 4.0-release. They all skip horribly any time the system accesses the >> disk at all, the only one I can get to play smoothly is kmp3, by turning >> the buffer up to max. But it randomly crashes and then won't start >> again unless I reboot the machine. A stable OS is no good if there are >> no stable programs for it right? What programs do you use, or is it a >> 4.0-release issue maybe? >> >> Once again, all help is greatly appreciated >> Generic Player -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message