noisy audio decode error

[Sam Liddicott]

Binary package hint: totem

I'm using feisty fawn.

This bug-report screen won't let me attach a file, but I'll attach an avi in the next step.

If I play with mplayer the audio output is perfect. mplayer reports the audio as:
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 128.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 16000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)

but totem plays a load of static barely overlaid with the original soundtrack.

xine also plays fine, although I am using totem-xine... go figure (xinelib 1.1.4)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 4 19:12:13 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-xine 2.18.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/anne
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux rattle 2.6.20-13-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 25 00:23:53 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

Sample avi

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. To confirm by something using totem-xine

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

Sebastian, I'm not sure what you are asking me to do. I thought I had confirmed using totem-xine and.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I'm not asking you do to anything, we just get too many bugs at the moment to work on everything and since we use totem-gstreamer and not totem-xine by default the desktop team will not work on it now. Would be nice if some bug triager or community guy having the bug would deal with upstream

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

I'll see what I can do.

[JC (jcarlock420)]

I had the same issue with VLC.

I fixed it by...

sudo apt-get remove vlc vlc-nox (obviously totem would go here)

Then it told me of the libraries no longer in use...

libdc1394-13 libwxgtk2.6-0 libpostproc0d libdvbpsi4 libavformat0d libxosd2
  libvlc0 libwxbase2.6-0 libgsm1 libdvdnav4 libiso9660-4 libkadm55
  libavcodec0d libmodplug0c2 libtar libvcdinfo0 libmpcdec3 libsdl-image1.2

I just typed sudo apt-get remove "And pasted the info above"

The paste had a line break so it kicked i off early BUT I just ran sudo apt-get install vlc after that and it grabbed the libs and now I have no more static.

Good luck.

[JC (jcarlock420)]

Maybe not...

Problem still happens with some louder music.

DAMN DAMN DAMN!!! Now I'm the idiot that posted a bad reply!

[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.

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

Right now on a re-install of hardy heron alpha 3 now updated to the latest (with libc6 fix) totem-gstreamer can't even play the audio (mplayer can).
(I hate totem gstreamer can't show dvd menus why does it keep re-installing itself)

totem-xine plays that file just fine.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

could you please check if you can reproduce the file as follows:

gst-launch-0.10 -t -v playbin uri=file:///home/user/file.avi

and attach the logs in case it doesn't play.

Thanks

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

Basilio Kublik wrote:
> could you please check if you can reproduce the file as follows:
>
> gst-launch-0.10 -t -v playbin uri=file:///home/user/file.avi
>

That worked absolutely fine

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what error do you get using totem-gstreamer?

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

No error, just no audio.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
Sent: 15 March 2008 12:23
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 102991] Re: noisy audio decode error

what error do you get using totem-gstreamer?

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing to new, to send upstream by somebody having the issue, it doesn't really make sense that the sound works in gst-launch and not there

[Sam Liddicott (sam-liddicott)]

I'm wondering if the loss of audio is related to loss of alsa dmix, my pre-hardy home gnome prefences and pulse audio and multiple user logins.

I'l check into that, it may have been that totem gstreamer (which I don't use for poor dvd menu support) couldn't play ANY audio.

I'll look into it.

I'm trying to get dmix back as it seems more compatible with multi-users logins.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
Sent: 16 March 2008 10:47
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 102991] Re: noisy audio decode error

changing to new, to send upstream by somebody having the issue, it
doesn't really make sense that the sound works in gst-launch and not
there

** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

noisy audio decode error - It seems this bug is a duplicate of bug #102426

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, could you try to reproduce the same with intrepid and see if it's still an issue there? 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!.