GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 128231
Sound Corruption
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
corruption in playback starts around 30 seconds after playback of mp3 begins. Sounds like random noise is being mixed in, possibly buffering problems. My system is an AMD Athlon XP 2000, 512MB RAM and I'm playing from a local fat32 partition.
What are you using to play the mp3? Does it happen with other applications? Does it happen with a file on a non-FAT partition?
and what version?
I'm using rhythmbox 0.6.0 to playback. INFO ( 5469: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.4 INFO ( 5469: 0) CPU features: (00000762) MMX SSE 3DNOW MMXEXT INFO ( 5469: 0) registry: loaded global_registry in 0.265760 seconds (/var/lib/gstreamer/0.6/registry.xml) The bug seems to apply even when playing from a local ext3 partition.
I also have this problem on two different system, each one running debian unstable. The sound is simply of bad quality and you can hear it when listening to classical music. There's no "30 second of good music", all his quickly wrong. I have the problem with all gstreamer player (rhythmbox, gst-player or my own mp3 player with gst) it's not related to the plugin, since the problem is the same for ogg file, mp3 file. You need to have very good speakers to hear the difference, but if you have it (my Hifi-Stereo is plugged into my PC ) , the difference between mpg321 and gstreamer is HUGE !
Could you try to reproduce this with GStreamer-0.8.0? Thanks.
Reporter, do you use oss or alsa?
This was a bug in mp3parse, which was fixed recently.
Ah hah, good stuff. I was using ALSA (sorry, don't know why I didn't get the email telling me that people had replied to this post). I switched to Gentoo from Debian in the intervening time period but still have weird issues with GStreamer. When I figure out what they are I'll file seperate bug reports.
Please do, thanks. :).