RE: mpg123 or xmms and RH6.1 on AS200

["Konrad Podloucky" <konrad pelimbert tssc univie ac at>]

On 05-Jan-00 Malcolm Caldwell enlightened me with:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having problems running xmms or mpg123 on my AlphaStation
> 255 under
> redhat 6.1.
> 
> mpg123 makes sounds like it is underwater and prints out heaps
> of errors like
>       mpg123: Can't rewind stream by X bits!  where X changes.
>
Had the same problem, when compiling mpg123 myself. IIRC there
are some binaries at alphalinux.org which work for me.
 
> xmms plays about 1 second of audio (which sounds OK) and then
> dies saying
>       Floating point exception
> 
xmms works great here. Did you install binaries or did you
compile it yourself?
[...]

Hope this helps,
        konrad

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