Hi...Thanks for the great job you all do! I have already looked over the archives manually (is there a search on the website for the archives????) and I couldn't find any reference to this issue. I apologize if this has been covered before.
mpg123 in 8.2 does some strange things with what it perceives to be corrupt mp3 files (ie., junk at the beginning, "big number too large!", etc.). When it encounters these files, it dumps. Sometimes it dumps right away, sometimes it dumps partway into the file, sometimes it skips around all over the place and ultimately dumps! mpg123 -t says the same thing the file says on the screen when it is playing or <grrr> getting ready to dump. Dump meaning in this context, that it dumps the file and moves onto the next one if you have multiples playing, or just ends the playing of the file if playing a single file. Note: On Mandrake 8.2, XMMS does play these very same files very well, so does Win98's version of Winamp, and even believe it or not, RedHat 7.3's version of mpg123 (actually mpg321) also plays these files!!!! I know that RedHat's mpg123 is actually a symlink to mpg321. But we installed the rpm for mpg321 on Mandrake with the same exact results as mpg123. So that isn't the issue either. The RedHat 'mpg123' is the most taxing problem, because it should work the same when installed on Mandrake 8.2 install, but it doesn't. RedHat's 'mpg123' version actually works on a RedHat installation! It plays these same files WITHOUT any of the problems and without dumping! Redhat's mpg123 -t says files are OK! I don't know if it is in the libraries somewhere or what! Even if you uninstall mpg123 rpm package for Mandrake and install the RedHat 7.3 version of mpg123 (mpg321) it still does the same thing and worse!!! The mpg321 will dump files that even mpg123 was playing previously on the Mandrake install. We have several machines here, some with Mandrake, some with RedHat on them. This is true on every install of Mandrake 8.2. The RedHat 7.3 version works consistently on all installs that we have. So it doesn't appear to be mpg123 or mpg321 specifically...but maybe a library issue maybe??? I just don't get it. I have done searches on the net but didn't find any references to this problem except that SUSE is apparently having a similar, or the same problem that we are experiencing on Mandrake 8.2 with mpg123. Has anyone else run into this issue. I really need to use mpg123 in commandline, and I need it to work. I do not wish to install RedHat on this computer, I want to stay with Mandrake...but I need mpg123 to work on my Mandrake 8.2 if at all possible. I can't be the only one that needs the commandline mpg123 to work! Thanks in advance for any help in this area. Thanks, Bambi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
