[MPlayer-users] trouble seeking mpg123 decoding failed (code 24)

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 12/3/13, Dennis New <dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 14:01:17 -0500, Dennis New wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:14:43 -0500, Dennis New wrote:
>> > With some mp3 files (i.e. some podcasts), sometimes mplayer has
>> > trouble seeking a few seconds back (or forth), and it seems to get
>> > stuck in silence, in a loop, with stdout spitting out and endless
>> > stream of this:
>> >
>> > mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24)
>> >
>> > I can get out of this loop by randomly/repeatedly trying to seek
>> > back/forth, and then it magically resumes roughly where I left off,
>> > but it's very annoying.
>> >
>> > (Currently I'm using MPlayer SVN-r36370)

Try using version that is newer than r36461.
If you have problem with compiling you can use another decoder as workaround.
Try "-ac ffmp3,mad, "

Best Regards.