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Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer

This section provides a tutorial on how to play a MP3 music file with MPlayer.

The next test is to use MPlayer to play a MP3 music file:

C:\temp>\local\mplayer\mplayer Liang_Zhu.mp3
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 
   T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font
   description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing Liang_Zhu.mp3.
Audio file file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Liang Zhu
 Artist: Unknown
 Album: First Album
 Year:
 Comment:
 Genre: Other
=====================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
=====================================================================
AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

MPlayer prints detailed information about the MP3 file, and plays the content nicely.

Sections in This Chapter

Downloading and Installing MPlayer

Playing DVD VOB Files with MPlayer

Playing VCD DAT Files with MPlayer

Playing MPEG Video Files with MPlayer

Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer

Playing WAV Music Files with MPlayer

Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer