[MPlayer-users] mpg123: Can't rewind stream

[Philip Walden]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 01:48, The Wanderer wrote:
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>>Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>>>On 11/21/06, Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>>>>On my FC5 system, I am getting a "mpg123: Can't rewind stream"
>>>>error when playing audio files, specifically mp3's, and they all
>>>>sound like static.
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>>>mpg123 != mplayer
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>>This is true, but the error message he quoted is printed by mp3lib,
>>which is - or at least can be - used by MPlayer to decode MP3s. If you'd
>>looked at the actual MPlayer output which he included in his post, you'd
>>have seen that the error message is in fact there.
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>>>>I yum'ed the MPlayer 1.0rc1 package from greysector.
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>>Third-party packages are generally not supported on these mailing lists;
>>non-development versions are also often not supported, although rc1 is
>>recent enough that it's a bit less likely to be rejected out of hand.
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>Check your facts. Greysector is my repository and the packages are supported.
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>>>>Any ideas? I have tried oss and alsa
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>>Try one of the other codecs listed by 'mplayer -ac help' as supportimg
>>MP3. ffmp3 is fairly good, and where it fails I've had success with
>>libmad. If ffmp3 does the job, then it'd probably be safe to put '-afm
>>ffmpeg,' in your config file and consider the matter done with.
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>>That doesn't address the question of why it actually happens, of course,
>>but it should be a way to avoid the problem.
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>It's a known problem already fixed in SVN. It will be fixed in the official
>packages, too.
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>Regards,
>R.
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Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. Yum just pulled down mplayer-1.0rc1-2 and 
it works.