Multi Media Programs

[Jim Ruby]

I see a lot of talk about mpg123, I have mpg321 and it does work on the command line, is this the same program, just a later version?  I found it on one of the rh cds.
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 05:03:42 -0500 (CDT), Thomas Stivers wrote:

>Yeah, I noticed that myself. I think I found the info in the documentation
>that came with the source. I am actually using version 0.59s and somewhere
>it mensions the functions of the control keys.
>
>On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I forgot one other thing. The man page for my version makes no
>> mention of the interactive commands. I did find mention of --control in
>> the program help but the manpage doesn't contain the word control.
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Thomas Stivers wrote:
>>
>> > You can gett some of the functionality you want from mpg123. Using the
>> > --control command line option lets you use f to go forward, b to go back,
>> > "," to rewind, "." to fastforward, q to quit, s to stop, and p to pause.
>> > It also has a --shuffle and --random option. If you read the mpg123 man
>> > page you can see that it does a lot. For all your other stuff you will
>> > need to check out alsa. I am still trying to get alsa working here, so I
>> > can't help you too much with it. Good luck.
>> >
>> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> >
>> > > I just set up a linux box and got the basic sound support working with my
>> > > SB AWE32 sound card.  At least I can play wav and mp3 files with play and
>> > > mpg123.  My question is how can I get some of the functionality I have
>> > > with programs like winamp where one can skip around within a file and skip
>> > > back and forth between files being played? I do realize these are
>> > > command-line programs but I had hoped for a bit more control while the
>> > > program is running.  I haven't looked at amp or freeamp yet; perhaps they
>> > > offer this? Also, what are some good mixer programs out there?
>> > > Surprisingly, I did not see the snd-utilities with slackware 8.0 and none
>> > > of the programs offered with basic slackware seemed to include a
>> > > mixer/volume control for the sound card. I have seen such things in the
>> > > past. Maybe I need to go out and find some separate utilities and install
>> > > them?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for any ideas.  I'm running linux from Slackware 8.0 with 2.4.9
>> > > kernel.
>> > >
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