mplayer (mp3 audio) since upgrade to FC6

Fri Oct 27 23:38:02 CEST 2006

On Friday, 27 October 2006 at 20:42, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
>   I just recently upgraded to Fedora Core 6.  I have the mplayer 
> binaries from freshrpms that were compiled for FC6  (yum automatically 
> gets them).
> 
>   The problem is that MP3 (MPEG 1.0 layer III) doesn't seem to work 
> right any more.   I get sound, but it has all this garbage overlaying 
> it.  It doesn't matter if it is an MP3 file (audio only) or an MPEG 
> video that include layer III audio.
> 
>   Playing AAC files works fine.
> 
>   Is the codec for MP3 audio included in mplayer, or is it a separate 
> library?
> 
>   I also have mpg321 that also came from freshrpms and it works fine.

It is a known problem, but we don't have a fix yet. It happens only if a
binary build with runtime CPU detection is running on an Athlon (as far as
I could determine). What's your CPU, by the way?

As a workaround, add
afm=ffmpeg,
to your ~/.mplayer/config (don't forget the comma).

Regards,
R.

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