[MPlayer-users] Noise at beginning of some MP3 files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:15:35PM +0100, Timo Teifel wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I use mplayer as Movie- and MP3 Player. 
> 
> When played with mplayer, some of my mp3's begin always 
> with about half a second very loud noise, then they get
> played perfectly.
> Other mp3 Players play them without that noise.
> This happens only with a few files, not with all. 

Use -ac mad or -ac ffmp3. mp3lib (the default decoder) is known to be
buggy but it's fast and works on all known mp3 tracks in movie files.

Rich