I have the following problem with xmms-mad the MP3 decoder. The following pictures should explain: http://www.impulsestorm.com/madbug/snapshot2.png http://www.impulsestorm.com/madbug/snapshot3.png In short, it reports many, but not all pieces on my playlist as having a duration of 0 seconds. The pieces that are misreported seem to be in clumps on my playlist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. shepherd realitymage # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-nitro4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-nitro4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun 4 2004, 18:14:08)] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.9.3, 1.5, 1.7.9 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dba directfb dvd encode ethereal f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses network nls nowin nptl oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sqlite sse ssl stroke svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode wifi x86 xft xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
By the way - this also occurs in the latest version of xmms-mad (0.7) that is not in portage.
I can confirm this behavior. Downgrading xmms-mad didn't help though. Using mpg123 output works so it's definitely a xmms-mad problem. Cheers, Ben Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Sep 30 2004, 23:14:02)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib adns alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr codecs crypt divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype usb wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Oh, just to let you know turning of "pars XING headers" in the xmms-mad configuration fixed the problem.
ok, then this is a "feature" ... so maybe talk to the upstream developers if you think the default should be different.