From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 18:28:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54E537B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8695743FAF for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 77F7872FD1; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F6472FCC; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:28:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Meyer In-Reply-To: <16023.8152.459169.401590@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <16023.8152.459169.401590@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to play new flavor of mp3 files X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:28:30 -0000 On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > I've recently started seeing mp3 files that neither mpg123 nor > plaympeg can deal with. I find this rather annoying, and would like to > know if there's something I can use to play them. All my examples are > rather large, so I won't attach one here. But file identifies them as: > "MP3, 32 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Stereo". Playing them with mpg123 results > in errors about not being able to rewind the stream; playing them with > plaympeg results in a random collection of clicks. Yeah, this is the hallmark of VBR coded MP3s. mpg123 won't play them but xmms, and even the old xaudio tools, can play them. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org