asterisk + mpg123 packages

Lee Azzarello lee.azzarello@ps-solved.com
Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:01:14 -0400


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:39 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:01:55AM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> > El sáb, 11-06-2005 a las 11:09 +0200, harry gaillac escribió:
> >
> >  Have you checked which actually the problem is? mpg321 should be a good
> > replacement for mpg123, but perhaps some command line is missing or
> > output is a bit different. That should be fixed, at least in Debian, as
> > we should encourage use of mpg321 when possible.
> 
> Nope. mpg321 provides good command-line compatibility to mpg123, but not
> does not perform as well. Those symptoms are basically what you should
> expect.
> 
It also appears to have some timing issues with virtual machines. Music
played back with mpg321 was unlistenable on a Xen virtual machine, while
mpg123 played back the files normally. I'm just going to push for vorbis
so we can forget all these little incompatibilities.

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