Error related with mp3lib

[Jonh Wendell]

Hi.

When a start mplayer, it shows me an error dialog related to mp3 stuff.
I'm attaching the error dialog screenshot.

I'm using MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu7 on edgy updated until today (2006-09-27)

[MoMaT (momat)]

Confirming. Seems to happen for films with audio encoded using mpga. Doesn't influence mplayer's ability to acctualy play the sound.

Mplayer console output for sample avi file:
Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio decoder)

Mplayer console for sample mpeg file:
Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp2] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-1 and layer-2 audio decoder)

[MoMaT (momat)]

The fix for Bug 52729 might be some clue here.

[amitm02 (amit-man)]

confirming,
same error dialog in edgy, mplayer MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu7 installed from ubuntu rpos'..

[Märt Suga (mart-suga)]

Hi,

Same bug here.
I managed to fix it by changing:

"Preferences" > "Codecs & demuxer" > "Audio codec family"

from "NONE" to "FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders"

Regards,
Zeratul

[David Klotz (ravenmokel)]

The same problem was also reported (and the workaround that Zeratul used proposed) in this thread on ubuntuforums.org:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1679043
I can also confirm this with all mp3-files (and videos encoded with an mp3-audio-stream, a lot of divx-encoded movies do this) on edgy amd64 and i386. I can also confirm the workaround of switching the audio codec family to ffmpeg. I first tried putting afm=libmad or afm=ffmpeg in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf (like it was in dapper) but that strangely didn't affect the gui-version of mplayer.
-David