Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer
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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 WAV Music Files with MPlayer
Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer