Re: low bandwidth ogg playing.

Andy Baxter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:13:56 -0400, Ben Winslow wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:15, Andy Baxter wrote:
>> Xmms doesn't play ogg files well if they are encoded at low bandwidths.
>> I've made a test file (short sample of a jimi hendrix tape) which sounds
>> OK when played through ogg123, but awful when played through xmms.
>> 
>> see www.niftybits.ukfsn.org/misc/test-ogg-direct.ogg
>> 
>> This has a bitrate of about 12 kbps mono, which is useful for peer to peer
>> broadcasting where 2 upload streams are needed to keep the stream fanning
>> out.
>> 
>> It plays OK in zinf as well.
>> 
>> It was encoded using the following parameters:
>> 
>>  oggenc -b 12 -M 18 --managed --resample 11025 --downmix
>>  Wed-Sep-22-04-0\:1\:45.wav -o test-ogg-direct.ogg
> 
> 0.02£ says you're using the ESD output plugin...
> 
> (ESD's resampler sucks.  Hard.)

it's the standard alsa output plugin. The disk writer plugin works OK, so
it looks like it's more to do with the resampling than the ogg input
plugin itself. I get the same kind of distortion when I play a 11025 Hz
wav file.
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