Garbled sound in totem-xine when playing Linear PCM audio (often used in camera's videos)

[Skuggi]

Binary package hint: totem-xine

Totem Version 2.22.1 - Movie Player using xine-lib version 1.1.11.1 and GNOME

Problem: Sound garbled (horribly distorted) when playing the video or audio files encoded in Linear (Microsoft) PCM (often used in photo camera's videos) with totem-xine, if totem's volume control is not at 100%. It sounds more distorted the lower the volume control is set.

How to reproduce: Open http://web.t-online.hu/majorandras/HPIM1411.AVI or http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-migshootdown.wav file with totem-xine and decrease volume with the volume knob in totem.
How to "fix": Set the volume knob in Totem to full.

Movie file sound characteristics: 176 kbps, Codec: Linear PCM, Sample rate: 22050 Hz, Channels: 0 channels

I also tested these avi and wav files with gxine (using libxine1 ver 1.1.11.1) and didn't noticed any problems with sound in any volume level, so, *this is not xine-lib bug*.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the development version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron?

Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

This bug exists in all Ubuntu versions I've tested (7.04-8.04) and it's a really important issue for totem-xine users as sound is broken in videos, produced by the majority of photo cameras :(
Btw, it seems this bug already has duplicates - see bug #102991. You can grab video/audio files for testing from that bug, Debian bugreport or bug #93076 (all these files have Linear PCM audio).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream wrote that's a xine-lib issue

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I noticed the package your bugging is updated in Maverick. Does this occur in it? If so, please feel free to mark this bug as new. Thanks in advance!