When XMMS is configured for esd output, the whole spectral analysis is pulsating with a frequency about 4Hz. That means 4x in a second all the spectral lines drop down to zero and then restore back. It's a very annoying effect. When I switch XMMS to Alsa output, it displays the spectrum correctly. I have checked this on the same mp3 and am sure it's not anything that is in the mp3. It looks like XMMS makes the analysis over a bigger portion of a buffer than should, and the rest is filled with zeros, and the window of the spectral analyzer slides over the audio data and zero gaps periodically, fading the signal in and out. Maybe it's a bug of XMMS, maybe XMMS is somehow incorrectly compiled with ESD and it's a bug of gentoo. I don't know, so I am posting the bug here. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.1 2-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share /config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/ mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/sh are/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/te x/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl d ga divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fam ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomatic foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live matroska mikmod ming mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba sdl sharedmem shorten slang socks5 speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tls truetype t ruetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** Bug 112679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
hmm looks like a esd bug. You mean this is a Gentoo bug why you said that ?
forgot to close :)
Wrong bug... reopening
i'm closing this bug... reopen if you come up with a patch to fix this issue.
