From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 14:30:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21689 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21380 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rostewa2@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14390; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:31:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vt.edu (rostewa2.campus.vt.edu [198.82.96.185]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01949; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:27:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <352A5410.22707C3D@vt.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 16:28:00 +0000 From: Brandon Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Victor Sudakov CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem playing MPEG files References: <199804071521.XAA19351@vas.tsu.tomsk.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Brandon Stewart wrote: > > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > vas: {10} mpg123 -t mc.mp3 > > > High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. > > > Version 0.59k (1997/07/13). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp. > > > Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! > > > THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! > > > > > > Playing MPEG stream from mc.mp3 ... > > > MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo > > > > My guess is that this is a software error. Try using a different player, > > such as splay, or amp. Many of the players do not support all layers of > > encoding, and last I checked, mpg123 was one of these. > > I have now tried both splay and amp. The result is weird: I can hear some > very frightening noise from the speakers, which slightly resembles the songs > I am trying to play. In fact, I can even guess what song is being played. Are you using a sound blaster compatible card? I have had the exact same results for sound blaster cards on two different computers. I do not know the answers, so I'll through it the rest of the list. Does anyone here know the reason why sound quality on sb compatible cards is so horrid? The only suggestion I can offer is to try luigi's sound driver, which should be discussed in LINT. Its a device or controller pcm, I believe. If you have an awe32 or an awe64, and you are using the sb-device, you may want to use those devices instead. Another thing I have to say is that even though sound is horrid when playing wave or mp3 files, sound should not be so bad if your sound card is connected to the cd-rom and you use a utility (such as xcd) to play cds. (sorry if I'm repeating anything you've already done, I do not have your original email anymore.) Regards, Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message