GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 366758
GStreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gives you very poor quality
Last modified: 2006-11-21 07:22:34 UTC
Using GStreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 in Ubuntu Edgy gives you very poor quality. If the music has some bass sounds and you have good speakers, it's in fact nearly not listenable. To reproduce this bug, download the following MP3 : http://ploum.fritalk.com/musique/autour%20de%20lucie/06%20-%20Dans%20Quel%20Pays.mp3 1. Be sure that gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 is not installed on your computer 2. Play the given MP3 with totem 3. Close totem 4. Install gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 5. Play the given MP3 with totem With good speakers, you will listen immediatly the difference ! (no need to hear the whole mp3. Then 20 first seconds are really enough.) Downstream report : https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gst-fluendo-mp3/+bug/68681
Using gst-fluendo-mp3 from SVN I can't say I hear a significant difference between flump3dec and mad, so it might have been fixed already in SVN. Any chance you could double-check yourself? (the repository is at https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/svn/trunk/gst-fluendo-mp3) Also, the upstream bug tracker for the fluendo plugins is at https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/trac/report/
Yes, this is already fixed in SVN some time back - there was a bug introducing noise into the left channel for some files because of an array index overflow. Current SVN produces the same output as mad with only single bit differences.
No response in three weeks, closing for now. Lionel: if you still have this issue with SVN, please a bug in the fluendo trac bug tracker mentioned above, thanks!
I'm sorry, I had no time to test with SVN. I'm pretty confident about Jan's explanation so I consider it closed too. If needed, I would reopen it on Fluendo BTS. Thanks for your time.