Jacob Meuser writes: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 07:28:18PM +0200, Earin Gregor wrote: >> During my search for a console based mp3/ogg player I found >> mpg123. But it seems quite old. The last version bump in the >> ports tree is already some time ago. The same for mpg321. >> Thus I wanted to ask if it is still actively maintained by >> someone? Or is there some other console based music player >> which is overly prefered by the people here? I'm open for >> suggestions :-) > > depends what/how you want to play. I like mplayer, ffplay and > akodeplay, though the last two are limited in many ways.
This is why I am becoming increasingly fond of gst-launch for playing media. It handles everything I've asked it to, in the lightest, simplest way. $ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=anything Of course, you need to install about 30,000 plugins first.
