[plug] MP3s on a NTFS not working out

[Jan Schmidt]

<quote who="Weirdo">
*snip*
> the files off NTFS. If I move them to ext2/3 or FAT it works fine. The 
> error I get is device not found (i spent weeks trying to find out what 
> module wasn't loaded, by accident I found out it was the NTFS)
> Can any one tell me why this happens and how I can redeem it without moving 
> files?

A while ago, we had a problem in GStreamer like this. It turned out to be
that the NTFS driver doesn't support mmap file reading, and we didn't have a
fallback.

Looking at the mpg123 0.59r source, it looks like it should fall back to
normal read calls, but perhaps there is a bug, or you aren't using that
version - if indeed you are seeing the same problem as we did.

A simple test for you might be:

cat myfile.mp3 | mpg123 -

If that works, I'd say it is mmap, in which case make sure you're running
the latest mpg123, or try GStreamer (gst-launch-ext should play
mp3/ogg/others from the command line happily) 

J.
-- 
Jan Schmidt                                  thaytan at mad.scientist.com

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