[MPlayer-users] Re: [Bug Resended] Dumped mp3-stream won't play

[Michael Behrisch]

Am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 18:35 schrieb Tobias Diedrich:
> As mplayer is mainly a video player and not an audio player, it is quite
> picky about audio files as to avoid mistaking a video file for an audio
> file.  If the mp3 begins with rubbish, mp3 players will just sync to the
> first working frame, but mplayer just doesn't recognize it as mp3.

I know, I may get flamed for that, but playing works with noatun, which 
is based on libxine AFAIK and this is also mainly a video player project,
thus there is no excuse ;-)

>
> Try mp3check --cut-junk-start to repair the file.
>
> http://www.icculus.org/mp3check/

Nevertheless, thanks for the hint

Michael