From personal experience, i recommend you to install ecasound from source, the lastest version, and remember to install mpg123 if you want to decode mp3 (sudo apt-get install mpg123 or sudo apt-get install mpg321, they are the same in my experience)

 

Good luck Carlos!

Bye

 

On 11/13/08, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> wrote:

I found a recent related thread here:

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=961480

Regards
-Carlos

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've compiled ecasound 2.5.2 and i'm running this simple test:

ecasound -i my_file.wav -o my_file2.wav

That went fine. Same for other output formats, like flac or aiff. But when the turn comes to mp3, I get the output:

- [ Engine init - Driver start ] -----------------------------------------------
(eca-engine) Request start
(audioio-mp3) Starting to encode my_file2.mp3 with lame.
(audioio-forked-stream) Fork child-for-write: 'lame -b 128 -s 44.10 -x -S - %f'
(eca-engine) starting engine operation!
(audioio-mp3) Attempt to write after child process has terminated.
(eca-engine) output error - stop
(eca-engine) stopping engine operation!
(eca-engine) Signaling stop
(eca-engine) Signaling exit
(eca-engine) WARNING: An output object has raised an error! Possible causes: Out
... of disk space, permission denied, unable to launch external applications needed in
... processing, etc.
(eca-engine) Engine state when finishing: 4
(eca-control-base) Engine thread 14475 will exit.


I tried some 2.4.x versions of ecasound with the same result. My lame version is 3.98.2.

Any ideas?

Best regards
-Carlos

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