GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 588532
Error while playing newmessage.wav
Last modified: 2009-09-08 15:03:32 UTC
100% reproducible, both stable and master. Also seen at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2009-May/msg00139.html Go to Preferences->General>SoundEvents. Press Play button for each of the 5 items. All of the them are ok, except the last one, newmessage.wav, which shows an error dialog box (Error while opening audio output device Default) but still plays the sound. I noticed that this .wav file is different than the others: snoopy:~$ file /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/* /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/busytone.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/dialtone.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/newmessage.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/ring.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz /usr/share/sounds/ekiga-snapshot/voicemail.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 44100 Hz A workaround is to change the type of the sound file, but the real solution is to see what happens... There is something wrong in lib/engine/audiooutput/audiooutput-core.cpp...
Or in PTLIB (which reads and plays the files).
*** Bug 594432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 142693 [details] re-created wav With thanks to audacity. Now the newmessage.wav won't bring an error message in ekiga. (I did just an import/export)
Created attachment 142695 [details] recreated wav with silence at the beginning The same as before, but with a 0.2 sec silence at the beginning. Decide yourself, which is better. (This one, can be played in vlc better. It makes no difference in ekiga.)
Your file has only one sound. If you play the original with aplay, you have 2 sounds...
Created attachment 142701 [details] wave screenshot I'm sorry, but I don't hear any differences between the original and my version using aplay. Even when I import the two files in two instances of audacity. (see screenshot) - the top contains the original newmessage.wav - the bottom contains the re-created newmessage.wav => There are no differences. Would you mind viewing and playing the original newmessage.wav in audacity? Do you hear any differences to aplay?
You're right, sorry. There is a minor bug in vlc, it does not play the very beginning of the file. So I commit the first version, without the 0.2 sec added, ok?
Right, it seems vlc has a bug. I prefer the first version (without 0.2 sec), too.
Fixed in stable branch (http://git.gnome.org/cgit/ekiga/commit/?h=gnome-2-26&id=1b5802da565f93d475390e6a9465434fd5025981) and master (http://git.gnome.org/cgit/ekiga/commit/?id=dc485e0faa1e2216dd2650b4a5b7d3da5503d352), thanks, Dominik!