Package: mpg123 Version: 0.66-1.1 Severity: important
I'm surprised -- and a little distressed -- that this appears to be a longtime non-issue for the mpg123 support team. Is no one using this package? I've been waiting for this problem to go away -- but it isn't, clearly. This issue suddenly cropped up one day (how and exactly when I can no longer tell you; but it's been some number of months and less than a year, possibly); and on my end neither a number of libc6 upgrades nor a major kernel upgrade has changed the situation whatsoever. So AFAIC this has not likely been a local issue on my end. Of course -- who knows, at this point. [It could possibly be an ALSA issue, however, as I did move to that from OSS around this time; but I do not recall immediately having this problem then. Frankly, I don't see this as being related to ALSA.] Now, a situation exists with mpg123 where numerous Internet MP3 streams produce garbled text output on the screen when playing -- and too often begin to actually screw up the display, so that the terminal has to be completely reset or even re-started. I do not understand the situation enuff to even begin to address the problem in that regard; but it seems like some sort of buffer error to me: some sort of overflow/bounds check or sanity check failure or something. On top of this, these streams often fail, where they didn't previously. Note that in most or all of these cases, I can move to the mp3blaster program and then run these same MP3 streams pretty much as they've always been run (mp3blaster has its own issues). IMO it could very well be that these MP3 streams have always not conformed to whatever standards they are supposed to conform to, and mpg123 has simply become brittle in some way in more rigorously dealing with this. However, it could just as likely be some SNAFU purely on the mpg123 end. I can only speculate here at this point. And this is all I can give you here. Sorry. Hope it helps. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mpg123 depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii oss-compat 0.0.4 OSS compatibility package mpg123 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
