sceeching sound when playing music files

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 5/11/11, Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: sceeching sound when playing music files
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 4:06 PM
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> On 05/11/2011 04:55 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > 
> > Any testers out there that have collections of mp3's
> and have played them with new Fedora 15?  
> > 
> > I have run several tests and oggs play fine, wma's and
> m4a's play fine, but mp3's give that screechy sound
> :(.  I know that fedora does not include mp3 playback
> since it is a forbidden item:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
> > 
> > But they should be playing fine.  Something is
> causing this screeching sound and I don't know what it could
> be.  I have only to ask other testers if they are able
> to play mp3's that have worked well in previous fedora
> versions, if they are able to play them. This would be a
> turnoff :(  
> > 
> > Please test this out.  Whether any player that
> can play mp3's, be it vlc, rythmbox as has been filed
> against, mplayer, totem, gstreamer, ..., etc.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Antonio 
> 
> This is a known problem with mplayer, and is caused by gcc,
> just build
> mplayer with the --disable-mp3lib option and mp3 files will
> play fine.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> - -- 
known problem?  I beg to differ.  How come no one said a thing?  Only a few knew and kept it to themselves :(

Thanks for pointing out a solution.  I will recompile mplayer with that option :)

Regards,

Antonio