[MPlayer-users] Is libmad really needed???

[Pedro A. Aranda]

Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi <at> poste.it> writes:

> 
> On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:39:53 Pedro A. Aranda wrote:
> > Lately I have observed, that libmad is requested and I get a lot
> > of messages like:
> >
> > Forced audio codec: mad
> > Requested audio codec family [mad] (afm=libmad) not available.
> > Enable it at compilation.
> > Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> >
> > My question is: if mplayer is going to mp3lib when it sees that
> > I don't have libmad (BTW libmad hasn't beed modified since 2004,
> > hmmmm..), why do I have to receive this annoying message?
> >
> 
> mad is needed with certain demuxers (demux_mpg, demux_ts, maybe more)
> that don't parse mp3 packets for lack of a parser;  moreover it's an
> int-only decoder (needed on certain platforms that lack an fpu)
> 

Hi Nico,

thanks a lot for your reasoned answer. I perfectly well understand now
what the implications are and have installed libmad. The _real_ problem
for me was, that even with FAAC'd audio, mplayer insisted on loading
libmad and was complaining about it not being available. I have lately
seen that mad is the default audio coded in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Could it be that mplayer insists in loading libmad because of this? Would
then the answer to my problme be to comment the audio codec line in 
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf ?

Thanks a lot,/PA