Hi all, It seems latest mplayer switches from mp3lib to ffmp3 as the default mp3 decoder. I have two questions about this: 1) Today when playing one mp3 file, mplayer continuously shows warning messages even if I use -really-quiet. Compiled with MinGW GCC 4.4.1, running on WinXP. cmdline: mplayer xxx.mp3 -really-quiet [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -3 -3 Last message repeated 1 times [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -2 -2 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -6 enddists: -5 -5 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -4 -4 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -3 -3 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -2 -2 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -3 -3 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -6 enddists: -4 -4 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -2 -2 Last message repeated 2 times [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -4 enddists: -1 -1 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -4 -4 [mp3 @ 0x2994e00]overread, skip -5 enddists: -2 -2 I will upload the sample if needed. 2) It seems mp3lib is much faster than ffmp3. Tested on a Core2 E6750 OC 3.2G: cmdline: mplayer -benchmark xxx.mp3 -ao:pcm:fast:file=NUL -ac mp3 BENCHMARKs: VC: 0.000s VO: 0.000s A: 1.087s Sys: 0.008s = 1.095s BENCHMARK%: VC: 0.0000% VO: 0.0000% A: 99.2694% Sys: 0.7306% = 100.0000% cmdline: mplayer -benchmark xxx.mp3 -ao:pcm:fast:file=NUL -ac ffmp3 BENCHMARKs: VC: 0.000s VO: 0.000s A: 2.188s Sys: 0.009s = 2.197s BENCHMARK%: VC: 0.0000% VO: 0.0000% A: 99.5904% Sys: 0.4096% = 100.0000% Any good reason to drop mp3lib? Regards, ZZ