RunCommand mpg123 doesn't work

[Mario]

Hi,

(I hope this is the right place to ask)

So as the subject says,

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1. RunCommand('mpg123', ['audio.mp3'], s);

(with appropriate s) does not produce any audio, while running

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1. mpg123 audio.mp3

works fine. Any hints on how I could get it to work? It's Lazarus 3.4 with fpc 3.2.2 on latest Debian stable.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Mario

PS: This is a console application, and should stay that way for now.

[Fred vS]

Hello.

This work here on XUbuntu 22.04:

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1. program mpg123_test;
2. uses
3.   process;
4. var
5.   s : ansistring;
6. begin
7.   RunCommand('mpg123', ['audio.mp3'], s);
8. end.

Maybe try with the full path:

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1. RunCommand('/usr/bin/mpg123', ['audio.mp3'], s);

[TRon]

@mario:
What is the contents of s when the command "does not produce any audio, while running" ?

[Mario]

I must apologize. I had the path to the file wrong. mpg123 seems to not print anything to stdio, only to stderr, while mplayer just says "end of file" if it doesn't find it.

Sorry.

[TRon]

...
Sorry.

No problem. It happens to the best of us  Thank you for letting us know