#196 no -C option in win32 build

[B. Brown]

[...]\mpg123-1.15.1-x86\mpg123-1.15.1-x86>mpg123 -C "[somepath].mp3"
mpg123: Unknown option "C".
You made some mistake in program usage... let me briefly remind you:

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
version 1.15.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

usage: mpg123 [option(s)] [file(s) | URL(s) | -]
supported options [defaults in brackets]:
-v increase verbosity level -q quiet (don't print title)
-t testmode (no output) -s write to stdout
-w <filename> write Output as WAV file
-k n skip first n frames [0] -n n decode only n frames [all]
-c check range violations -y DISABLE resync on errors
-b n output buffer: n Kbytes [0] -f n change scalefactor [32768]
-r n set/force samplerate [auto]
-os,-ol,-oh output to built-in speaker,line-out connector,headphones
-a d set audio device
-2 downsample 1:2 (22 kHz) -4 downsample 1:4 (11 kHz)
-d n play every n'th frame only -h n play every frame n times
-0 decode channel 0 (left) only -1 decode channel 1 (right) only
-m mix both channels (mono) -p p use HTTP proxy p [$HTTP_PROXY]
-@ f read filenames/URLs from f
-z shuffle play (with wildcards) -Z random play
-u a HTTP authentication string -E f Equalizer, data from file
-C enable control keys --no-gapless not skip junk/padding in m
p3s
-? this help --version print name + version
See the manpage mpg123(1) or call mpg123 with --longhelp for more parameters and
information.</filename>

[Thomas Orgis]

[Thomas Orgis]

Yeah, the terminal control code doesn't work on Windows. It would be a feature request to write equivalent code for that platform.

For command-line fun, I recommend using Cygwin as environment. The terminal control should work there (not really sure right now, though). When I am faced with a Windows machine for a longer timeframe, eventually Cygwin gets installed to make things bearable.

If you want to submit a patch implementing terminal control on native Windows by whatever means, you're welcome in the feature request section. I do not suppose this will be included otherwise, sadly --- at least not by me, who didn't do development for Windows since quite some time now.

The acutal bug here is that -C is advertised in --help output. That will be fixed in next release.

[Man-wai Chang]

Deleted.
Used a new reply to make this bug looks updated in SourceForge! ;)

[B. Brown]

Ok, thx for explanation !

[Man-wai Chang]

If you want to submit a patch implementing terminal control
on native Windows by whatever means, you're welcome in the
feature request section. I do not suppose this will
be included otherwise, sadly ---
at least not by me, who didn't do development for
Windows since quite some time now.

Is it really hard to implement that? I supposed no
special win32api calls would be needed to implement it.
The control keys were sent directly to mpg123, NOT to
the Windows kernel.

From http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7838/

To see mpg123′s controls, type ‘h’ during playback. Doing so will show the menu of available controls displayed below.

 -= terminal control keys =-
[s]     or [ ] interrupt/restart playback (i.e. '(un)pause')
[f]     next track
[d]     previous track
[b]     back to beginning of track
[p]     loop around current position (like a damaged audio CD;-)
[.]     forward
[,]     rewind
[:]     fast forward
[;]     fast rewind
[>]     fine forward
[<]     fine rewind
[+]     volume up
[-]     volume down
[r]     RVA switch
[v]     verbose switch
[l]     list current playlist, indicating current track there
[t]     display tag info (again)
[m]     print MPEG header info (again)
[h]     this help
[q]     quit
[c]     or [C] pitch up (small step, big step)
[x]     or [X] pitch down (small step, big step)
[w]     reset pitch to zero