I noticed that when I encode an audio file with "lame -V0 file.wav file.mp3" (-V0 is the highest quality VBR encoding mode), the resulting file.mp3 will be played back wrongly (the sound will badly and noticeably skip at some places) if xine-lib is emerged with the "mad" USE flag enabled (which is the default, even.) This doesn't seem to be a player issue; I confirmed the sound skips with both Amarok 2.2.0 (KDE 4 is configured to use Xine here) as well as gxine 0.5.903. Emerging with mad USE flag disabled or deleting /usr/lib64/libmad.* fixes the issues. Also, this doesn't seem to be a libmad issue either, since madplay (0.15.2b-r1) plays the files just fine. The problem seems to only occur in applications that use xine-lib, and xine-lib itself uses libmad. Apps that use libmad directly don't seem to suffer. To test, encode some audio with lame (I use 3.98.2-r2) using it's -V0 option and play it back in gxine or xine-configured Amarok. If you can't reproduce, I will upload a FLAC file somewhere that would result in the breakage when encoded with -V0.
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Try 1.1.18
(In reply to comment #2) > Try 1.1.18 Bug still there.
Example mp3 file where this occurs: http://foss.math.aegean.gr/~realnc/files/Insomnia%20Gkoutzelomix.mp3 amarok+xine+mad will result in skips at about 0:15 and 0:29. madplay plays it perfectly.
(In reply to comment #4) > Example mp3 file where this occurs: > > http://foss.math.aegean.gr/~realnc/files/Insomnia%20Gkoutzelomix.mp3 > > amarok+xine+mad will result in skips at about 0:15 and 0:29. madplay plays it > perfectly. And xine-lib-1.2.0? Is it even possible to use amarok with xine-lib anymore?
(In reply to comment #5) > Is it even possible to use amarok with xine-lib anymore? No, it's not.
