[MPlayer-dev-eng] Player Plain Audio Files

[Johannes Feigl]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:49:15PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi team,
> 	Aside from the current lack of audio file demuxers, is there any
> technical reason that MPlayer can't be made to play plain audio files,
> such as wav, au, mp3, ogg, etc.? Can't we just set some structure fields
> to acknowledge the fact that MPlayer shouldn't try to find any frames in a
> particular file? Then, I imagine the demuxer would have to figure out a
> way to break the audio into packets for the app to read.

In my opinion, I think this would be very good...

mplayer has so optimised decoders for may formats, why not using them
for plain audio files ?

also the seeking in videos is very great, a mplayer for MP3-Files using
forward and backward keys would be great :-)

mfg Johannes