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Old 08-25-2008
Question problem with playing a song using mplayer

Hi all,
I have an application program which keeps reading an audio file from a directory one after the other , once a file is chosen it keeps sending data in terms of 60000 bytes to a specified socket. This is written into another file "x.mp3" and mplayer is called. Again next 60000 bytes are read and same procedure is followed till end of file.
here is my code which does the above work

Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<dirent.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<errno.h>
#include<sys/types.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>  /* for sockaddr_in and inet_addr() */
#include <unistd.h>     /* for close() */
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE !FALSE
  void DieWithError(char *errorMessage);  
int main()
{
      DIR *d = opendir("sun");
      struct dirent *ent;
      int count = 0,x;
      char filePath[20];
      const char filepa[20]="sun/";
      unsigned char funcall[100] = "mplayer "; 
      FILE *fp,*fp1;
      int sock;                        /* Socket descriptor */ 
      struct sockaddr_in echoServAddr; /* Echo server address */
      unsigned short echoServPort;        /*  Echo server port */
      char song[20];
      char temp[20];
      char songname[20] = "x.mp3 ";
      char tmp_funccall[100];
      FILE *file;
      unsigned long buf1[200000];
     
     if ((sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP)) < 0)

       DieWithError( "socket () failed") ;

      memset(&echoServAddr, 0, sizeof(echoServAddr));       /*  Zero out structure */
      echoServAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;                          /*  Internet addr family */
      echoServAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");   /*  Server IP address */
      echoServAddr.sin_port      = htons(9500);     

     ent = readdir(d);
     while(ent)
     {
                x = (strcmp(ent->d_name,"..")) && (strcmp(ent->d_name,"."));
                if(x != 0)
               {
                       strcpy(filePath,filepa);
                       printf("\n%s\n",ent->d_name);
                       strcat(filePath,ent->d_name);
                       printf("\n%s-filepath\n",filePath);

                       file = fopen(filePath,"r");
                          if (file == NULL)
                              {
                              printf("\nno file");
                               }

                              while(!feof(file))
                          {
                              fread(&buf1,60000,1,file);
                             sendto(sock,buf1,60000, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&echoServAddr, sizeof(echoServAddr)) ;
                             fp1 = fopen("x.mp3","wb");                                         
                             fwrite(buf1,60000,1,fp1);
                             strcpy(song,songname);
                              strcpy(tmp_funccall,funcall) ;
                             strcat(tmp_funccall,song);
                             printf("func %s\n",tmp_funccall);
                             system(tmp_funccall);
                             fclose(fp1);
                             }
                   fclose(file);
                }
ent = readdir(d);
       }
       closedir(d);
       close(sock);
       exit(0);
      return 0;
}

void DieWithError(char *errorMessage)
  {
      perror (errorMessage) ;
      exit(1);
 }

I get the following message when mplayer is called , but works fine. Am not getting why I get that message which is highlighted in red.


Code:
func mplayer x.mp3
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing x.mp3.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 1047 bits!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   3.2 (03.2) of 3.0 (03.0)  0.6%

Exiting... (End of file)
func mplayer x.mp3
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 3, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Code:
Playing x.mp3.
Audio file file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 1563 bits!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   3.2 (03.2) of 3.0 (03.0)  0.6%

Exiting... (End of file)


Last edited by vino; 08-25-2008 at 10:30 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 08-26-2008
When mplayer can't find a proper mp3 block header where it expects it to be, it tries to "rewind" back in the data stream to try to get its footing. Sometimes that fails and it then has to walk over the data until it finds a header's signature again.

It's no big deal, and indicative of a sloppily-made mp3.

However, I see in your code that you're not checking how much data fread() returns, and then blindly write 60000 bytes on the socket. Think about the last chunk of data, it's not going to be exactly 60000 bytes. So you're writing extra garbage at the end of your streams.

You should use the value returned by fread() and use that as an argument to fwrite and sendto.
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