Re: KDE3.3 has arrived in unstable!

On Monday, 16 Aug 2004 04:22, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> You can send me some samples. If it always the same files, it is
> something that can be investigated. If it changes, it sounds more
> like an issue with your system.

Unfortunately, Australia has very few, if any, provisions for fair use, 
so I can't legally share these files. In Sweden, it is (so far) legal 
to share with one's friends, and I will be there a few months from now, 
so perhaps later on. For now, here's what I found:

It's always the same files. It seems that the files affected are mostly 
files that I ripped a few years ago on a Windows machine using, I 
believe, CD'n'Go or something like that, which, if I recall correctly, 
used the Ogg Vorbis encoder straight from the Ogg project. The nominal 
bitrate is 176 Kibit/s. Files created under Linux with the same nominal 
bitrate are also affected.

MP3 files and files and one 224 Kibit/s nominal bitrate batch of eleven 
songs encoded under Linux appear unaffected, and not all files from the 
same batches as affected files are bad. The files appear fine in XMMS, 
Xine, and Mplayer.

The choppiness sounds quite similar to the sound one gets when fast 
forwarding a CD on some players (referring only to the sound; playback 
is not faster than normal, songs finish playing in exactly the time 
they should). What seems to be happening is that the sound is muted for 
roughly 1/10th of a second every other 1/10th of a second.

Most tracks seem to be choppy all the way through (or for as long as one 
can stand listening to it anyway); a few are only choppy for a few 
seconds after starting or seeking.

Setting Arts to real time priority or not and experimenting with the 
buffer size does not affect the issue.

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Alex Nordstrom
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