[Techtalk] mpg123 error

[Raven Brooke]

Yes, all sound works other than mpg123, including kde media player. I have 
tried mpg321 with the same result. I have also reinstalled mpg123 from the 
.rpm. 

I did find that while libao.so was installed, it was not in my path, so I 
made a symlink to it. I then killed all instances of artsd (esd was not 
running) and tried again: this time I got the first note or so of an mp3 
repeated until I ctr-c'd it. It seems like it's really *trying* to work, 
I'm just missing something that is interfering.

I prefer commandline options whenever possible, so I would rather not rely 
on kde to play music. Also simplifies scheduling cron jobs involving music  
: )

Thanks for any suggestions,

Raven


On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sam Watkins wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:26:27PM -0500, Raven Brooke wrote:
> > 
> > I am getting the following error when trying to play mp3's with mpg123:
> > 
> > Error opening libao oss driver
> > 
> > any idea where to start debugging this?
> 
> Do you have libao installed?  What distro do you use?
> Does sound work apart from this problem?
> 
> Try using mpg321 instead of mpg123, the license is better.
> 
> Better still, try ogg-vorbis :) it's much stronger than mp3 and it's
> patent-free - on the other hand, you'd need to re-encode everything,
> vorbis is not as widely supported as mp3.
> 
> Sam
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