Re: mpg123 "no supported rate found"

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:27:41PM -0500, Jay wrote:
> i went to geocrawler.com and google.com and searched the archives and
> found the same question but no answers.  I have a sony pcg-c1xs picture
> book. the sound card is ymf744.  I installled oss from opensound.com
> version 394b-28 and i recompiled the kernel without sound support.  I know
> the sound card works because i could use mpg123 to decode to a wave file
> and use the play utility that comes with oss to play it.  The problem is
> when i try mpg123 sadf.mp3 it give me no supported rate.  I tried mpg123
> -m -r 8000 asdf.mp3, and nothing still same error.
> 
> So in conclusion, i have a sound card that can play wav files but mpg123
> cant play mp3s, is there something im missing?
> what is this no supported rate error. why is it so vague.

It usually means the audio device isn't configured.  Make sure oss is 
supplying a working /dev/audio.

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