Re: Unable to play mp3 files after yesterday's dist-upgrade on Lenny
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 00:24:08 +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote:
> till yesterday, mp3 files were running fine using totem, xine as well
> as VLC. But after a dist-upgrade, it refuses to play in these players.
> Currently I am able to play mp3 files with mplayer only.
>
> This is the error message I get when I try to play them with various
> applications.
>
> xine - xine engine error - There is no demuxer plugin available to
> handle <filename>. Usually this means that the file format was not
> recognized.
> VLC - no audio sound audible. vlc player progress bar rapidly moves
> from 0 to full and then nothing happens.
> totem - There is no plugin to handle this movie.
>
> file type of the mp3 file obtained with file command is:-
>
> file.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 23.0 tag, MP3 encoding
>
> Please help. Is there any package that I need to install?
As far as I know, the standard way of playing MP3s involves the xine
engine (libxine1), which in itself relies on libmad0 to decode the MP3
stream.
Check if the upgrade involved the libxine* or the libmad0 packages. You
can find this information in /var/log/aptitude (if you use aptitude) or
in /var/log/dpkg.log. (The aptitude log is easier to read.) If any
packages were upgraded, try to downgrade them again to the previous
version (which might still be in your /var/cache/apt/archives/
directory).
> I am using Debian Lenny.
Check the output of:
xine --list-plugins=demux
This should tell you if xine really does not know how to play any MP3s
anymore or if it just does not recognize your particular file(s) as MP3.
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