From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 13:23:41 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 3F84A37B490 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AB3443FAF for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1050611019.159dd3@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5068 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2003 20:23:39 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 12 Apr 2003 20:23:39 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-inject, from uid 100); Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:23:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16024.30154.929728.852393@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:23:38 -0500 To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <16023.8152.459169.401590@guru.mired.org> <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.73 (Jet Pilot) 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 20:23:41 -0000 In <20030411182758.E99993@carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White typed: > 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. xmms didn't play the one I tried it on. Where do I find "the old xaudio tools"? http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.