Comment 10 for bug 134196

mpg321 -s <filename> | aplay -vf dat

gives

decoder: i586/pentium
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 0.66; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

Directory: ../path/
Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: <filename> ...
Title: title Artist: artist
Comment: , AG# 00000000 Album: title
Year: year Genre: genre
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbits/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
Riproduzione in corso dati grezzi 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Frequenza 48000 Hz, Stereo
Plug PCM: Soft volume PCM
Control: PCM Playback Volume
min_dB: -51
max_dB: 0
resolution: 256
Its setup is:
  stream : PLAYBACK
  access : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format : S16_LE
  subformat : STD
  channels : 2
  rate : 48000
  exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits : 16
  buffer_size : 16384
  period_size : 1024
  period_time : 21333
  tick_time : 0
  tstamp_mode : NONE
  period_step : 1
  sleep_min : 0
  avail_min : 1024
  xfer_align : 1024
  start_threshold : 16384
  stop_threshold : 16384
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 1073741824
Slave: Direct Stream Mixing PCM
Its setup is:
  stream : PLAYBACK
  access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
  format : S16_LE
  subformat : STD
  channels : 2
  rate : 48000
  exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits : 16
  buffer_size : 16384
  period_size : 1024
  period_time : 21333
  tick_time : 0
  tstamp_mode : NONE
  period_step : 1
  sleep_min : 0
  avail_min : 1024
  xfer_align : 1024
  start_threshold : 16384
  stop_threshold : 16384
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 1073741824
Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
  stream : PLAYBACK
  access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
  format : S16_LE
  subformat : STD
  channels : 2
  rate : 48000
  exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
  msbits : 16
  buffer_size : 16384
  period_size : 1024
  period_time : 21333
  tick_time : 4000
  tstamp_mode : NONE
  period_step : 1
  sleep_min : 0
  avail_min : 1024
  xfer_align : 1024
  start_threshold : 1
  stop_threshold : 1073741824
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 1073741824
  boundary : 1073741824