ogg123 maxes out CPU usage

[Lars Noodén]

ogg123 never starts to play audio. Instead it hogs the CPU and runs at or about 100%. Giving it 5 or so minutes does nothing except make the hardware heat up. This is on a macbook pro core 2 duo.

$ top
top - 14:33:00 up 5:13, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 0.85, 0.42
Tasks: 132 total, 3 running, 128 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 50.1%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 49.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2046140k total, 1748976k used, 297164k free, 85116k buffers
Swap: 3906240k total, 268k used, 3905972k free, 880604k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14997 lars 20 0 138m 10m 2536 R 100 0.5 0:14.98 ogg123
 5220 root 20 0 387m 48m 5004 S 2 2.4 2:17.75 Xorg
 6097 lars 20 0 177m 10m 7284 S 1 0.5 0:09.63 artsd
 6110 lars 20 0 167m 19m 12m R 1 1.0 0:05.26 konsole
 6264 lars 20 0 690m 110m 33m S 0 5.5 0:51.15 thunderbird-bin
...

$ uname -a
Linux macbook 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ogg123 -V
ogg123 from vorbis-tools 1.1.1

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy