> Are you sure that mpg123 really supports VBR?
> For a while I used GQmpeg a frontend to mpg123. 
> But the predicted times where like crap on VBR 
> encoded files and the slider jumped around.
> By now it seems that it handles a stream of frames
> with different bitrates correct, but nothing more.


but there's no way to know the length of a VBR mpeg stream beforehand

the only way is to include some non-standard information like xing does.

So mpg123 supports it according to the ISO standard... 

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