... since the many alternatives (FFmpeg, libmpg123, libmad) avoid its recurring issues like incorrect decoding with newer compilers"
That note is under the heading "2012-06-10, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1 released" 13 years later, I am not having any trouble playing mp3 files with it. I think you can infer any popular audio media player is going to work with the most common audio file format indefinitely. Reading your initial question more closely, I don't quite understand what you are looking for with "automatically generated time stamps". Mplayer is going to display the timestamp. You are going to have to depend on some mechanism like cutting and pasting or reading and typing to transfer the timestamp to where you are recording it. With a little hacking to the source code, maybe you could bind a keystroke to do something clever, like putting the timestamp into a cut buffer, but that doesn't sound like that kind of hacking is in your wheelhouse. There is a thread that talks about some options for recording timestamps to a file here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238889 I only read far enough to see that there was some vague relevance to your question. That isn't a warranty that it will tell you exactly what to do. Further research is an exercise for the reader. -- Russell Senior [email protected] On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/17/25 8:35 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > the CLI mplayer shows the time. You can hop forward or backward in 10 > > seconds, 1 minute, 10 minute increments with keys. pause, resume, etc. > > > > https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html seems to suggest the support for > mp3 is beginning to be disabled by default: > > ... Also the internal mp3lib copy is no longer used by default ... > >
