Distorted MP3 sound

[Sam Bashton]

Binary package hint: mplayer

When attempting to playback files with MP3 audio in version 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu3, sound is extremely distorted.

Sound output is fine in previous version (0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8).

[wannes (wannes)]

I can confirm this.

[Emanuel Steen (kozz)]

Having the same problem in mplayer 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu3.

Seems to be a problem with mp3lib since when adding the option "-ac ffmp3" the sound is correct but when using "-ac mp3" the sound becomes distorted (which is also the default).

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I can confirm this also. Mencoder is also affected. A workaround is to use -afm ffmpeg, but this does not work correctly with mencoder. Because mencoder is also affected, all utilities that depend on mencoder, like DeVeDe cannot be used.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I've compiled mplayer from svn and copied the mplayer binary file to /usr/bin/player; thereby overwriting the binary from the feisty repos. All works fine now, incl mencoder (note: I didn't copy the mencoder binary).

Conclusion is that the mplayer binary has an bug, properly related to mp3lib.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

corr.: /usr/bin/player = /usr/bin/mplayer

[TiagoCruz (tiagocruz)]

Is not only for MP3, this problem affect movies .avi and .rmvb too.

This workaround works very well:
$ sudo echo "afm=ffmpeg" >> -afm ffmpeg

[Ulf Karlsson (ohmega)]

The workaround in the previous comment is incorrect.

Try:

$ echo "afm=ffmpeg" >> ~/.mplayer/config

[TiagoCruz (tiagocruz)]

Yeah Ulf, you are correctly, sorry about this...

In the true, I prefer do one global configuration, like this:
$ sudo echo "afm=ffmpeg" >> /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

And, speaking in "how make mplayer more friendly" maybe we should decrease the size of subtitle, because the default if very big :-)

$ sudo echo "subfont-text-scale=3" >> /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

Thanks a lot!

[yaztromo (tromo)]

This is only working partially. There are still some files which worked okay in dapper and now sound like they are being fast fowarded at 1000x in feisty. For the most part the fix is good but it isn't a final solution for me.

[VincentRC (vreneco1)]

I have the same problem (Feisty upgraded from Edgy). I have launched a video file from command line and this is what I get :

Playing XXXXXX.avi
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 608x336 24bpp 23.976 fps 1022.7 kbps (124.8 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Software: Nandub v1.0rc2
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 608 x 336 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.81:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 608x336 => 608x336 Planar YV12
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 8 bits!01 41/ 41 13% 4% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 26 bits!2 42/ 42 13% 4% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 22 bits!4 43/ 43 13% 4% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 75 bits!8 44/ 44 13% 4% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 29 bits!2 53/ 53 11% 3% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 25 bits!0 72/ 72 9% 2% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 59 bits!8 77/ 77 9% 2% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 13 bits!3 80/ 80 9% 2% 0.8% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 21 bits!2 95/ 95 8% 2% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 37 bits!0 101/101 8% 2% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 23 bits!4 103/103 8% 1% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 14 bits!3 107/107 8% 1% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 23 bits!4 111/111 8% 1% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 22 bits!0 113/113 8% 1% 0.7% 1 0
mpg123: Can't rewind stream by 22 bits!1 116/116 8% 1% 0.7% 1 0

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

mplayer (2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu6) feisty; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Disable mp3lib and enable mad (LP: #85751).
  * debian/control:
    - Add libmad0-dev to Build-Deps.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Please reopen this bug if the problem persists, and leave it assigned to me :-).

[Phil Housley (undeconstructed)]

This isn't fixed for me. Building the package suggests that configure runs with "--enable-mad --disable-mad". Just a typo maybe?

[MadJo (mdejong)]

For me the problem also persisted.
But after applying the workaround mentioned in this report, it worked again.

[Christoph Roeder (brightdroid)]

For me the isn't fixed too (mplayer-nogui 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu7) and the workaround mentioned doesn't help.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Phil, it's built with --enable-libmad --disable-mp3lib. Maybe you read it wrong?

MadJo, the "workaround" to use ffmpeg? Since mp3lib is disabled that should be the default now. Can you please remove the workaround and try it that's the case.

Christoph, could you follow up with output from playing a known-good .mp3 from the console please.

Thanks, /Nafallo

[Olaf Maurer (gurke)]

I just upgraded to 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu7.
Playing avi with mp3 and just mp3 works fine, but now mpeg1 is broken.

Looks like this:

Requested audio codec family [mp3] (afm=mp3lib) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]incorrect frame size
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/15.87% (ratio: 28000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp2] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-1 and layer-2 audio decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
[mp2 @ 0x892a858]Header missing skipping one byte.
...

and so on. Sound is extremely fast and distorted.
It works with "-ac mad".

[kaiska (kaiska)]

The problem persist here (mplayer-nogui 0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8) but the workaround (add "afm=ffmpeg" in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf) do the trick.

[hexion (hexium)]

Today's upgrade 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu8 seems to have fixed the problem in my system

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I also updated to 1.0~rc1-0ubuntu8 today, but still this nasty bug is not solved.

Mplayer seems to work, but Mencoder still does not!

I have found a new workaround and that is to replace the Feisty binaries with the Edgy binaries (0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8). That works great. Maybe someone else can also try this and than we can hopefully get this bug confirmed, before it is fixed.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

Please see both attachments from http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/

Jeroen

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

This bug is still NOT solved, one day before the scheduled release date of Feisty. There is no fix released. Only mplayer ins working, but mencoder still gives the distorted sound. I still have to use the above workaround!

[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

I'm currently using SVN version (April 14, 2007) and it works fine. I did a .deb package for people who uses DeVeDe. It's available at devede's homepage: http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html. It's a little ugly, because mplayer and mencoder are in the same package, but as a fast fix for people who needs it just now...

[Michal Dekan (michal-dekan)]

I got same horrible sound as wannes in first comment i used mplayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9

[Jonathan Cruz (drpfenderson)]

I am having the same issue with mencode/mplayer. The .deb package from the Devede site does not work for me. Whenever I try to install Devede or k9copy (or anything else that uses those packages), it tries to uninstall the .deb versions and reinstall the Ubuntu (buggy) repo versions. Even if I install the CVS pakages through Synapic, it tries to remove them.

I had to compile Devede from source (and k9copy) to get them to work. But it would still be nice to be able to install them the normal way through the repositories.

Does anyone know when this is will be fixed in the official package for mplayer/mencoder?

[Johnny Levai (digistyl3)]

What I did was downloaded the mplayer cvs package from the Devede site. I extracted the files "mplayer" and "mencoder" from it, and replaced the ones in /usr/bin. It works. Thanks jeroenvrp for the hint.
Why not builg a new deb package from the latest mplayer and mencoder, upload it so we can test it, and if there are no regressions, it'll go to Feisty updates?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Johnny Levai wrote:
> Why not builg a new deb package from the latest mplayer and mencoder,
> upload it so we can test it, and if there are no regressions, it'll go
> to Feisty updates?

Um, how about no? That would be incredibly stupid, and I'd probably lose
my upload privileges if I tried it.

[Johnny Levai (digistyl3)]

Sorry for my incomplete sentence "upload it so we can test it". I didn't ment uploading to the Feisty repos, but somewhere so we can download it and test it. I don't know how does something get a newer vesion in the repos, but I saw something similar in the HPLIP Toolbox case: we had some bugs, so the maintainer got built a deb package from the new version, uploaded it to his own host or what was it, 12 users or so downloaded it, tested it, and reported any problems, or if it was working correctly. There were no regressions, and bugs were fixed in that release, so he made a report, and the HPLIP Toolbox was updated to the new version.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Johnny Levai wrote:
> Sorry for my incomplete sentence "upload it so we can test it". I didn't
> ment uploading to the Feisty repos, but somewhere so we can download it
> and test it. I don't know how does something get a newer vesion in the
> repos, but I saw something similar in the HPLIP Toolbox case: we had
> some bugs, so the maintainer got built a deb package from the new
> version, uploaded it to his own host or what was it, 12 users or so
> downloaded it, tested it, and reported any problems, or if it was
> working correctly. There were no regressions, and bugs were fixed in
> that release, so he made a report, and the HPLIP Toolbox was updated to
> the new version.

Updates to stable releases are only done when the patch that fixed the
problem can be isolated. There's not the slightest chance that a new
upstream checkout would go anywhere near a stable release (other than
perhaps through backports).

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I don't agree. e.g. Complete new Firefox bugfix-versions (2.0.0.*) are released using the Ubuntu update mechanism. So I don't agree that this mplayer/mencoder-debacle cannot be resolved ASAP.

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

As a very new Ubuntu user, I get the impression from all this that things are not as rosy as one might be led to believe. I thought the concept was collaboration and support. What I have seen with this saga is evidence of passing the buck and the sad "ignore it and it might go away" syndrome.

Why can't it just be fixed, or is the Mencoder support team just going to pretend that the problem doesn't exist?

I did think that this attempt with Ubuntu (my third) was going to be successful. Unfortunately it still seems to lag behind in multimedia support.

I will wait in hope

[William Grant (wgrant)]

jeroenvrp wrote:
> I don't agree. e.g. Complete new Firefox bugfix-versions (2.0.0.*) are
> released using the Ubuntu update mechanism. So I don't agree that this
> mplayer/mencoder-debacle cannot be resolved ASAP.

Bugfix-versions is the key here. An mplayer VCS checkout is NOT a bugfix
release, it would contain an enormous amount of completely unrelated new
code. This is not going to be fixed in Feisty unless somebody can
isolate the patch that fixes it. Upgrading to a new upstream checkout
has enormous potential for regressions, which we can't effectively test for.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Yeuclid wrote:
> As a very new Ubuntu user, I get the impression from all this that
> things are not as rosy as one might be led to believe. I thought the
> concept was collaboration and support. What I have seen with this saga
> is evidence of passing the buck and the sad "ignore it and it might go
> away" syndrome.

It's more likely to be a case of "I've got no idea about it, but I'm a
volunteer so it's not a requirement. Maybe somebody else knows more."
syndrome. You're free to locate the fix yourself, and then it can be
fixed for everybody.

Everybody who works on mplayer within Ubuntu is a volunteer, and nobody
knows the mplayer codebase well. It's enormous, and very messy.

> Why can't it just be fixed, or is the Mencoder support team just going
> to pretend that the problem doesn't exist?

We need to have a fix in order for it to be fixed. We don't have one at
the moment.

[mrklean (mrklean)]

I have the same problem with the sound. I changed the conf files as mentioned above and will see if these work. I changed them both. If they work, I'll leave you know. One question...the the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.cong file.. the -ac under audio ends with a comma... in my file anyway ... is that supposed to be there.. I see it nowhere else ?? I'm not a programmer.. just asking a simple yes or no question LOL!!
Thanks ; )

[mrklean (mrklean)]

well, that didn't work..I'll keep on trying LOL!

[mrklean (mrklean)]

I have Devede 2.1.3.. I'm replacing feisty mencoder with the one from Edgy i386. I'll let you know what happens. I hope you don't mind me testing and telling what's happening. If so, leave me know ; )
Thanks

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

At least somebody seems to be trying something, it's better than nobody doing anything.

[Paulus (donmatteo)]

Guys - please take your conversation to some other place if you have
nothing new to add to this bug report. This report is only for
discussing fixes for the bug, i.e. mostly for developers.

[mrklean (mrklean)]

OK...no problem. I just thought it would help to let the devs know what doesn't work for a work around!
Laters

[mrklean (mrklean)]

Anything happening with this bug ???

[BasherBob (bk-free)]

I think there is a second bug here that is compounding the problem: the mplayer.conf file isn't reading the codec setting correctly.

From my experimenting passing "-ac mad" as a manual setting in the Misc tab of DeVeDe works OK, but the "ac=mad," setting isn't picked up from either the global or personal config files. There seems to be a cascading order of priority for setting the codec used: mplayer.conf -> ~/.mplayer/config -> DeVeDe 'extra parameters'. This cascade only happens if there is a comma at the end of the ac line otherwise it stops with no codec being used resulting in no audio track.

Some examples:
1.
mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters'
ac=mad, <empty> <empty>

The mplayer.conf mad setting isn't read correctly but the comma is. Finding nothing else in the other two places the default (buggy) mp3lib mp3 codec is used. Because of the parsing error this setting may as well be "ac=aksdjfhaslrtaf," i.e. the codec in mplayer.conf apparently doesn't exist

2.
mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters'
ac=mad, <empty> -ac mad

Again the mplayer.conf mad setting isn't read correctly but the comma is. Finding mad in the extra parameters the libmad mad codec is used and everything is fine. If "-ac mp3" is passed in the DeVeDe parameters then we are back to the distorted soundtrack again

3.
mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters'
ac=mad, ac=mad -ac mad

In this case the settings in both config files are read incorrectly but there is no comma in the personal file so the DeVeDe settings aren't used either. The result is no audio codec is used so there isn't a sound track

I noticed that this also appears to hold true for the afm setting.

I hope this helps. In the meantime I'm manually setting the audio codec for each recording

Cheers

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

I wonder if this is related to similar problems reported in VLC and/or alsa-lib?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/103025
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/97004

[mrklean (mrklean)]

There was an update to mplayer and mencoder which I downloaded. I installed them, rebooted and still no solution. Is this confirmed or is my Ubuntu messed up ? I tried it on a fresh install with no luck either.
Thanks !

[fabioamd87 (fabioamd87)]

it's bad to see this comunication :( --> http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Bug persists.

The problem: the ac=mad, at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf fixes for mplayer, however mencoder still is broken. This is because this line enforces mad to mplayer, but mencoder still tries to use the broken mp3lib decoder. Passing -ac mad to it works.

I tried systrace at mencoder and found that it does no process any system configuration file, as mplayer does with /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf. So, there is no way to enforce it in a system wide manner.

I believe, the only global solution would be to make a /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf enforcing mp3lib to be disabled, in favor of the mad library (since mp3lib seems to be broken at all...). This way, both mplayer and mencoder should work and also all packages depending on either one of them should work (since no one might use -codecs-file option). Now, the built in file is used, where it forces mp3lib by default. The documentation on how to achieve this is at DOCS/tech/codecs.conf.txt at mplayer's source tree.

Hope this was useful and helps to solve the problem.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Update:

The easiest way to achieve my solution:

 Insert the file /usr/share/doc/mplayer/examples/etc/codecs.conf.gz to /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf o be part of the package, as a configuration file. Also, edit it, moving the whole mad entry right before the mp3lib entry. Also, the line ac=mad, at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf can be commented / removed.

I have not tried with devede and cia, but in theory it should work, any user of this sort of software please confirm.

[Alan Franzoni (alanfranz)]

I'd just like to help out finding the bug: i think this is cpu-dependant.

Up to one week ago, I was using ubuntu feisty (server install) on an old IBM netfinity 5100 ( Pentium III 900 MHz ) with 512MB SD-RAM. I had NO PROBLEM at all with mencoder and mp3 audio.

Some days ago I just installed a new Athlon 64 PC to replace it. I went for 32 bit Ubuntu Feisty, installed from scratch, updated, and got those nasty sounds when encoding (using the very same scripts and codecs) which i didn't happen to experience on the P3.

This could be a runtime optimization issue rather than a "real" bug, hence hard to spot. A good trial might be to recompile the package with less optimization, leading to a slower but working package.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

I am running Ubuntu 7.04 x86 and it DO have the bug. May be it is dependent
on the MP3 in question. I already posted a working safe (akaik) solution, it
is up to the maintainer to apply it.

On 8/4/07, Alan <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I'd just like to help out finding the bug: i think this is cpu-
> dependant.
>
> Up to one week ago, I was using ubuntu feisty (server install) on an old
> IBM netfinity 5100 ( Pentium III 900 MHz ) with 512MB SD-RAM. I had NO
> PROBLEM at all with mencoder and mp3 audio.
>
> Some days ago I just installed a new Athlon 64 PC to replace it. I went
> for 32 bit Ubuntu Feisty, installed from scratch, updated, and got those
> nasty sounds when encoding (using the very same scripts and codecs)
> which i didn't happen to experience on the P3.
>
> This could be a runtime optimization issue rather than a "real" bug,
> hence hard to spot. A good trial might be to recompile the package with
> less optimization, leading to a slower but working package.
>
> --
> Distorted MP3 sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Warning: this this is a little off-topic!

I also found that -vc ffsvq3 is broken (the default at ubuntu 7.04), failing
to play this video:

http://flyleafonline.com/media/video/SoSickHQ.zip

giving only a blue screen (but not of death ;-) ).

I could play the video with -vc qtsvq3 (I believe using win32 dlls). May be
it is worth disabling this codec also, since it is all broken at all, and
win32 dlls are not installed at Ubuntu (fromfactory) afaik.

I posted this here, due to the solution be the same as distorded MP3 sound
(fixing codecs.conf file).

Hope this helps more users.

Bye.

On 8/5/07, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I am running Ubuntu 7.04 x86 and it DO have the bug. May be it is
> dependent on the MP3 in question. I already posted a working safe (akaik)
> solution, it is up to the maintainer to apply it.
>
> On 8/4/07, Alan <email address hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I'd just like to help out finding the bug: i think this is cpu-
> > dependant.
> >
> > Up to one week ago, I was using ubuntu feisty (server install) on an old
> > IBM netfinity 5100 ( Pentium III 900 MHz ) with 512MB SD-RAM. I had NO
> > PROBLEM at all with mencoder and mp3 audio.
> >
> > Some days ago I just installed a new Athlon 64 PC to replace it. I went
> > for 32 bit Ubuntu Feisty, installed from scratch, updated, and got those
> > nasty sounds when encoding (using the very same scripts and codecs)
> > which i didn't happen to experience on the P3.
> >
> > This could be a runtime optimization issue rather than a "real" bug,
> > hence hard to spot. A good trial might be to recompile the package with
> > less optimization, leading to a slower but working package.
> >
> > --
> > Distorted MP3 sound
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
>
> --
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[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

Dear developers,

Please listen:

I have updated Feisty to Gutsy yesterday and after removing all manual Mplayer/Mencoder-packages (from the DeVeDe-website), I reinstalled the Mplayer and Mencoder packages from the Gutsy-repos, but after trying Mencoder again, I experienced to my surprise that the bug is still NOT solved!!!

Are we going to ignore this problem again, so the users will have to wait another 6 months for an official solution?

Please follow the advise from Alan (see above). BTW: my CPU is a simple 32 bits AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (cpu MHZ=2GB).

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

Are we going to ignore this problem again, so the users will have to
wait another 6 months for an official solution?

Maybe the developers just can't fix it, it's a VERY complex package. Perhaps it has defeated them, who knows.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Well, I already gave a simple / safe / working solution... If there is a
problem with it, then let me know, I will try to fix it. I just can not see
why it can not be applied to the next release.

On 8/10/07, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Are we going to ignore this problem again, so the users will have to
> wait another 6 months for an official solution?
>
> Maybe the developers just can't fix it, it's a VERY complex package.
> Perhaps it has defeated them, who knows.
>
> --
> Distorted MP3 sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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[mrklean (mrklean)]

I simply convert with WinFF and burn as a video DVD with k3B...I'm tired of playing with Devede and mencoder and Mplayer !

[Toma (tomhaste)]

This looks like a fun bug to add my 2 cents too. This is a bug that really aught to be fixed. ALOT of things need mplayer/mencoder to function properly and having this not working is simply a showstopper for me.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Just look at mplayer's popularity at freshmeat.net to see the
importance of this bug...

On 8/14/07, Toma <email address hidden> wrote:
> This looks like a fun bug to add my 2 cents too. This is a bug that
> really aught to be fixed. ALOT of things need mplayer/mencoder to
> function properly and having this not working is simply a showstopper
> for me.
>
> --
> Distorted MP3 sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

Not sure if we should be having this discussion here, but I missed the point
on this one.

If it's popular, then why is this bug not being dealt with more quickly.

All that is happening is that Devede will just be killed off, as it is non
functional in its standard state and nothing seems to have been done about
it.

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From: "Fabio Ornellas" <email address hidden>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Bug 85751] Re: Distorted MP3 sound

Just look at mplayer's popularity at freshmeat.net to see the
importance of this bug...

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

If I had access to package source I´d have it fixed myself...

On 8/14/07, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Not sure if we should be having this discussion here, but I missed the
> point
> on this one.
>
> If it's popular, then why is this bug not being dealt with more quickly.
>
> All that is happening is that Devede will just be killed off, as it is non
> functional in its standard state and nothing seems to have been done about
> it.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabio Ornellas" <email address hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bug 85751] Re: Distorted MP3 sound
>
>
> Just look at mplayer's popularity at freshmeat.net to see the
> importance of this bug...
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[Johnny Levai (digistyl3)]

Could the package maintainer update the package for Gutsy at least? You know, new version of Ubuntu, new version of other packages, so it could be a new version of mplayer too... (someone told us that it's fixed in the recent build, and that was a while ago)

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

I guess there is zero to none attention on mplayer at Ubuntu. There are only
two open bugs at launchpad, one from June 2006 and this one from Feb 2007.

I am seriously thinking about maintaining my own FFmpeg / MPlayer
packages....

On 8/14/07, Johnny Levai <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Could the package maintainer update the package for Gutsy at least? You
> know, new version of Ubuntu, new version of other packages, so it could
> be a new version of mplayer too... (someone told us that it's fixed in
> the recent build, and that was a while ago)
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[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

I'm the creator of DeVeDe and the "patch" based in version 0.99Pre8 for Mplayer/Mencoder.

I can understand that people just wants a system that "simply works", but maybe we don't have the right perspective about this problem.

The current stable version for Mplayer/Mencoder is 1.0rc1. This version is exactly the same available in both Feisty and Gutsy. This version has this unfortunate bug, both the Ubuntu package and the official tar.gz file from www.mplayerhq.hu. Since the release of this version, Mplayer/Mencoder developers have been working in the CVS and fixed this bug there. Unfortunately in the CVS are a lot of changes, new capabilities and more, and the code isn't considered stable. This means that the package maintainer can't take the CVS version and use it to create the Gutsy package, because is very probable that it has even more bugs than the current version. An example: before using the old 0.99pre8 version in my patch, I used the CVS code. Yes, this bug was fixed, but people trying to create PAL DVDs found that, in some cases, the final picture was in black&white!!!!! When trying to fix the old bug, a new one was added. That's why I decided to go back and use the old 0.99Pre8 version. It was much more tested and stable.

A package maintainer must be very careful with these things, and that's why he don't want to use the current CVS version. And as he told some messages ago, the specific patch to fix this bug is somewhere in the CVS history, and is very complex to find and isolate it, to warrant that there are no new bugs, so I suppose he is waiting for a new stable release of Mplayer/Mencoder (1.0rc2, I suppose), to minimize the possibles regressions. And I suppose that he can't go back to the old 0.99pre8 because to do that he would use a trick to cheat APT and force it to install a lower version.

So please, stop with these attacks to the maintainer. I'm sure he is trying to do its work the best he can.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Hello Raster,

I come from Debian and certainly I understand very well your point.

That's why I gave the solution I gave. MPlayer can decode MP3 through some
different libraries. The default one is buggy. I simply changed to another
one and it works for me and for some other folks. Yes, this other library
may be broken at some other cases, that's why I believe this
codecs.confchange I suggested should be applied to gutsy and tested.
Let it there for
let's say 2 weeks. If no one complains about this MP3 issue on gutsy, there
you have a working solution to import to feisty.

I just believe that hundreds of users losing hours of their lives with
things that does not work is a thing that should be avoided. Well, this is
very known bug, right? What about use debconf to give all users who install
the software a hint about this issue, and that there is no current
workarround for it? Of course we are talking of software outside Ubunu's
main stream software, but users still use it anyway.

Until now, no one pointed why my solution is bad, will break everything at
all or some other bad thing. I just think it should be given a try. I think
the beauty of FOSS is this kind of argue on how to make things better, and
that's what I am trying to do here.

I guess I already made my point, there is no need for me to repeat myself in
the future. I already have a working system myself, I just want to avoid
problems to other people and give them a smoother Ubuntu experience.

Thank you for your patient email Raster, sometimes it is good to give this
kind of attention.

On 8/14/07, Raster <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm the creator of DeVeDe and the "patch" based in version 0.99Pre8 for
> Mplayer/Mencoder.
>
> I can understand that people just wants a system that "simply works",
> but maybe we don't have the right perspective about this problem.
>
> The current stable version for Mplayer/Mencoder is 1.0rc1. This version
> is exactly the same available in both Feisty and Gutsy. This version has
> this unfortunate bug, both the Ubuntu package and the official tar.gz
> file from www.mplayerhq.hu. Since the release of this version,
> Mplayer/Mencoder developers have been working in the CVS and fixed this
> bug there. Unfortunately in the CVS are a lot of changes, new
> capabilities and more, and the code isn't considered stable. This means
> that the package maintainer can't take the CVS version and use it to
> create the Gutsy package, because is very probable that it has even more
> bugs than the current version. An example: before using the old 0.99pre8
> version in my patch, I used the CVS code. Yes, this bug was fixed, but
> people trying to create PAL DVDs found that, in some cases, the final
> picture was in black&white!!!!! When trying to fix the old bug, a new
> one was added. That's why I decided to go back and use the old 0.99Pre8
> version. It was much more tested and stable.
>
> A package maintainer must be very careful with these things, and that's
> why he don't want to use the current CVS version. And as he told some
> messages ago, the specific patch to fix this bug is somewhere in the CVS
> history, and is very complex to find and isolate it, ...

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Fabio, could you submit a debdiff containing the fix you propose, so that it can get reviewed?
You can get the mplayer source from Ubuntu repos using "apt-get source mplayer", just make sure you have multiverse source repository in you /etc/apt/sources.list or grab the bzr branch from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/mplayer/ubuntu.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

OK, I´ll make in in the following days.

On 8/15/07, mlind <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Fabio, could you submit a debdiff containing the fix you propose, so that
> it can get reviewed?
> You can get the mplayer source from Ubuntu repos using "apt-get source
> mplayer", just make sure you have multiverse source repository in you
> /etc/apt/sources.list or grab the bzr branch from
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/mplayer/ubuntu.
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[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Hello,

I'm no Debian / Ubuntu developer, may be I made some things not the best way, but it is working at least.

I managed to make a new package version, which includes a global codecs.conf file as I said, used by both mplayer / mencoder, enforcing libmad to be used instead of mp3lib. This should fix also Devede and other tools.

Please, do not forget about the bug with ffsvq3 as I reported above. I do not think it is worth opening another launchpad bug for it, since the solution would be EXACTLY the same of this case. Please consider making this solution also (the patch I made does not touch ffsvq3).

To tryout the patch I made at 7.04, save the patch to a directory, then cd into it:

$ cd where-you-saved-the-patch-I-made
$ apt-get source mplayer
$ cd mplayer-1.0~rc1/
$ patch -p1 < ../mplayer-1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.1_to_1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.2.diff
$ sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
$ fakeroot make -f debian/rules binary
$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.2_i386.deb ../mencoder_1.0~rc1-0ubuntu9.2_i386.deb

Please, someone who uses Devede and other stuff please test my solution. It is working for me (obviously).

If no one finds an error in it, I can see no reason why it should not be included as an update for feisty and for gutsy until a next mplayer release, as pointed by Raster.

I'll be waiting for a confirmation.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

There has been no fix released... please don't mark it as such!

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Sorry, I though my last message was a fix that was releases...

Well, do what is right to Ubuntu way, I have done my part with what I can.

On 8/16/07, William Grant <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> There has been no fix released... please don't mark it as such!
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer (upstream)
> Status: New => Fix Committed
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
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[mrklean (mrklean)]

Fabio, I'll give it a try. What should I name the patch file. I presume it should be saved into a text file with a name of ?????

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Name anything you want. The only important thing is be in the right
directory wehn running the patch command and and use the correct path to the
file (please see the instructions above).

On 8/16/07, mrklean <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Fabio, I'll give it a try. What should I name the patch file. I
> presume it should be saved into a text file with a name of ?????
>
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[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

I tested the patch and seems to work... but there's another little bug: mplayer works fine, but gmplayer, by default, tries to use "mga" as video output. If I launch it with "-vo xv", it works and remembers the new setting, using xv until I specify another one. Should I add this as a new bug?

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

I remember mplayer / gmplayer have no clear default vo output. I gues, it
would be best if the global configuration /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf had
something like

vo=xv,x11

added, to ensure it will always work on mplayer, gmplayer and mplayer
plugin.

Mine already has it (I added) and I remember something about mplayer plugin
does not work by default due to the lack of this setting. May be it is worth
another bug report, to not confuse with this one.

Just to test, try it with a factory /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and remove
~/.mplayer, ensuring no old configuration is messing up. If the bug still
exists, then surely it needs another bug report.

Well, it is one confirmation that my fix is working at least ;-)

On 8/16/07, Raster <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I tested the patch and seems to work... but there's another little bug:
> mplayer works fine, but gmplayer, by default, tries to use "mga" as
> video output. If I launch it with "-vo xv", it works and remembers the
> new setting, using xv until I specify another one. Should I add this as
> a new bug?
>
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[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

Before installing your patch I deleted all the files in /etc/mplayer and in ~/.mplayer, to ensure that there was no interferences between my old configuration and the new one.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

My patch did not touched anything related to video output settings, surely
it should get a new bug report, with my possible solution mentioned above.

On 8/16/07, Raster <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Before installing your patch I deleted all the files in /etc/mplayer and
> in ~/.mplayer, to ensure that there was no interferences between my old
> configuration and the new one.
>
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[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Fabio, don't introduce dpatch, but apply your patches 'inline' and post the .diff. Ubuntu mplayer is 'maintained' using bzr (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/mplayer/ubuntu) and this is why dpatch stuff was dropped since edgy (see debian/changelog).

If this issue is also in current development version (gutsy), it needs/should to be fixed before the stable version (feisty).

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

I am sorry, but I don't get it.

My fix is quite simple, just change a few lines in a file here and there. Any package maintainer could do it in 1/5 the time I spent to make this dpatch thing you said was dropped (I was not aware of that). I spent a few hours remembering all packing stuff, reading documentation compiling the thing many times to ensure it works, tested upgrade, clean install etc etc etc....

So, why not any mplayer package maintainer just change those few lines and make it the right Ubuntu way? I am sorry, but I can not help more that what I did. I will do it again and surely will make another thing wrong / missing. So, lets just let packagers do their part on this whole, and users / contributors (eg. myself) make ours.

Please do not take me wrong. I am not full aware of Ubuntu packing system, people / assignments and stuff. All I know is that I already gave a solution on July 11, a patch (not "correct" Ubuntu way) on August 15 , confirmation that my fix solves the issue a few hors ago and until now I have not seen anything done for real to take up or kick away my solution (except Raster's feedback). All I see is a bunch of users confirming the bug on this thread asking for solution.

So, if anyone with enough access to fix this and commit the fix to both Feisty and Gutsy decides to take action, nice to every mplayer /mencoder / dependent packages users. I will not stress myself anymore on this matter.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

Any update on this? Someone tried it in a recent Gutsy!?

[gnudoc (gnudoc)]

I can confirm that this bug is fixed in current gutsy (1/10/07) which uses mplayer version 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu11. This plays mp3 files properly, whether on the command line or via gmplayer. I have tested the following codecs: mad, mp3, and ffmp3.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

No this not about playback anymore, but about encoding (mencoder).

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I tested it again and the problem is still there :-(.

[gnudoc (gnudoc)]

mencoder still buggy.

[Sargate Kanogan (sargate)]

some workaround or something for gutsy?
at least the example config file we have to change
i have no problem with playing, only when encoding

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Have a look at my previous emails, I already gave a solution.

On 10/15/07, Sargate Kanogan <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> some workaround or something for gutsy?
> at least the example config file we have to change
> i have no problem with playing, only when encoding
>
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[mirak (mirak-mirak)]

Yes thanks,
but unless you come on this bug tracker, you won't find a solution, because it's still not fixed in gutsy.

[mirak (mirak-mirak)]

it's a shame this fix you provide really solve the problem :

******************************
Insert the file /usr/share/doc/mplayer/examples/etc/codecs.conf.gz to /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf o be part of the package, as a configuration file. Also, edit it, moving the whole mad entry right before the mp3lib entry. Also, the line ac=mad, at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf can be commented / removed.
******************************

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Fabio +1 point, Ubuntu MPlayer Team 0...

On 10/25/07, mirak <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> it's a shame this fix you provide really solve the problem :
>
> ******************************
> Insert the file /usr/share/doc/mplayer/examples/etc/codecs.conf.gz to
> /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf o be part of the package, as a configuration file.
> Also, edit it, moving the whole mad entry right before the mp3lib entry.
> Also, the line ac=mad, at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf can be commented /
> removed.
> ******************************
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[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Please stop posting useless comments to this bug report. If you have a patch, you've tested it and it works, then just subscribe universe-sponsors to get a review for it. Hardy repositories are open.

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

@mlind: That is very arrogant. The problem is here since Feisty and a lot of non-developers/non-packagers provided solutions and even patches (that one unfortunately was not accepted because Ubuntu changed the way they handle patches).

This bug should already be fixed 8 months ago. Please let the users do their thing (reporting bugs) and developers/packagers their thing (resolving bugs).

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

"Useless comment"? I´'d try to explain myself here, but jeroenvrp already
did a very good job...

I´ll complement one thing: prefer NOT to ship a buggy package, than ship it
and let Ubuntu users get disgusted by its (known, old, fixable) bugs. A
MPlayer bug IS an Ubuntu bug. Not my distribution, not my decision. Just
keep doing what Ubuntu folks believe is right.

By the way, I´d everything myself if I had the time to. Perhaps it is now
time to open a spot for new good souls to look after Ubuntu´s MPlayer
packages... I´m no expert at Ubuntu, just my user´s point of view.

I´ll now leave and pray for all users with this bug find this topic quickly
and solve their problems with no pain.

Got it?

On 10/25/07, jeroenvrp <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> @mlind: That is very arrogant. The problem is here since Feisty and a
> lot of non-developers/non-packagers provided solutions and even patches
> (that one unfortunately was not accepted because Ubuntu changed the way
> they handle patches).
>
> This bug should already be fixed 8 months ago. Please let the users do
> their thing (reporting bugs) and developers/packagers their thing
> (resolving bugs).
>
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[William Grant (wgrant)]

Nobody particularly wants to sift through hundreds of thousands of lines of diff, nor is obligated to. I'm currently working on upgrading our package to 1.0rc2 (along with some other big changes), which should fix this. I will post links to packages for testing in the next couple of days.

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

Wiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanx buddy!

On 10/28/07, William Grant <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Nobody particularly wants to sift through hundreds of thousands of lines
> of diff, nor is obligated to. I'm currently working on upgrading our
> package to 1.0rc2 (along with some other big changes), which should fix
> this. I will post links to packages for testing in the next couple of
> days.
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: MOTU Media Team (motumedia) => William Grant (fujitsu)
> Status: Confirmed => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

That is indeed good news. Thanks William!

[fabioamd87 (fabioamd87)]

good!

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

I was one of the first to report this problem, and have used the amended
version from the Devede web site to get round it.

A few weeks ago, I installed Kubuntu 7.10 on a spare machine and downloaded
all the updates to make it into the full release version.

I decided to install Devede just to see what happened, as packages from the
repositories. To my surprise it worked and I converted the first 5 minutes
of an AVI file to DVD format without any distortion or video interference.

What is the difference and why does it work on Kubuntu and not Ubuntu.

I am confused, any ideas?

[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

May be Debian already forces a working codec for MP3 or they have applied
the patch from CVS to fix the bug. As reported, it will be fixed on Ubuntu
8.04 (am I right?). Nothing for Gutsy though.

On 10/29/07, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I was one of the first to report this problem, and have used the amended
> version from the Devede web site to get round it.
>
> A few weeks ago, I installed Kubuntu 7.10 on a spare machine and
> downloaded
> all the updates to make it into the full release version.
>
> I decided to install Devede just to see what happened, as packages from
> the
> repositories. To my surprise it worked and I converted the first 5 minutes
> of an AVI file to DVD format without any distortion or video interference.
>
> What is the difference and why does it work on Kubuntu and not Ubuntu.
>
> I am confused, any ideas?
>
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[William Grant (wgrant)]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:07 +0000, Fabio Ornellas wrote:
> May be Debian already forces a working codec for MP3 or they have applied
> the patch from CVS to fix the bug. As reported, it will be fixed on Ubuntu
> 8.04 (am I right?). Nothing for Gutsy though.

Kubuntu shares the same packages as Ubuntu, so what Debian has done will
make no difference between the two. I suspect it's due to differing
audio drivers, or perhaps just general mplayer {crazi,random}ness.

Debian fixed this by going to 1.0rc2, as we will for Hardy (ie. 8.04
LTS)

[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

I have Kubuntu and have the bug, as everyone should already know by now.

Anyway, hopefully the new mplayer/mencoder package will be available in the Gutsy backports.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:50 +0000, jeroenvrp wrote:
> I have Kubuntu and have the bug, as everyone should already know by now.
>
> Anyway, hopefully the new mplayer/mencoder package will be available in
> the Gutsy backports.

That is what I aim for, yes. Additionally, I'll also compile the 1.0rc2
testing packages for Feisty and Gutsy in the next couple of days.

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

So it suggests that there is some conflict somewhere with another package I
don't have on my version of Kubuntu?

----- Original Message -----
From: "jeroenvrp"
Subject: [Bug 85751] Re: Distorted MP3 sound

I have Kubuntu and have the bug, as everyone should already know by now.

Anyway, hopefully the new mplayer/mencoder package will be available in
the Gutsy backports.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

mplayer (2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    - Packaging (LP: #150925)
    - MP3 Distortion (LP: #85751)
    - Aspect ratio fixes (LP: #103038, #153543)
    - Samba support (LP: #85052)
  * Move 01_default_config.dpatch into bzr.
  * Drop dpatch from build-depends and debian/rules
  * Add liblzo2-dev, libdvdnav-dev, libopenal-dev,
    libjack-dev, libtwolame-dev, libsvga1-dev to build dependencies.
  * debian/rules:
    - Build with radio interface support
    - Build with OpenAL, Jack audio support. (LP: #122042)
    - Let Xvid support be autodetected for proper linking.
    - Let Faac support be autodetected for proper linking.
    - Let fontconfig support be autodetected for proper linking.
    - Let LIVE555 support be autodetected for proper linking.
    - Drop DOCS/zh from dh_installdocs
    - Build with dvdnav support.
    - Adjust changelog that gets installed.
  * Add polish translation for .desktop file (LP: #93382)
  * Adjust configure script to properly link dbus-glib and pulse audio.
  * Disable joystick by default (LP: #75925)
  * Adjust configure script to call dvdnav-config properly.

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:26:21 -0400

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

What is the status of this fix now?

Has it made it into the 7.10 repositories yet?

How can it be used to fix the Devede problem?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Limonciello" <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: [Bug 85751] Re: Distorted MP3 sound

mplayer (2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:26:21
-0400

** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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[Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas)]

I guress the official fix is only available to the next version, or at some
backport repository.

You may however, find my fix at previous messages, where I pint a simple
file at /etc fix the issue.

[]´s

On Nov 11, 2007 10:45 PM, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:

> What is the status of this fix now?
>
> Has it made it into the 7.10 repositories yet?
>
> How can it be used to fix the Devede problem?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mario Limonciello" <email address hidden>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:50 AM
> Subject: [Bug 85751] Re: Distorted MP3 sound
>
>
> mplayer (2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
>
>
> -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:26:21
> -0400
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
> Status: In Progress => Fix Released
>
> --
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[jeroenl (jeroenl)]

Very good news. RC2 is in the Gutsy-backports: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=mencoder&searchon=names&subword=1&version=gutsy-backports&release=all and it works!

So this can be closed. Thank you all and hopefully these kind of things will not happen again.

[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

I tested it today and yes, it works!!!!! Thanks!!!!!

Will RC2 be moved to the official repositories in the short term, or it will be available only in Backports forever?

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

It will be living in backports for feisty and gutsy. It's in the normal repositories for hardy.

[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

I got round this problem with the "special" Devede version on Fabio's website.

I'm not familiar with backports, how can I now install a "real, clean" version of Devede from the repositories using the new improved Mplayer?

I'm running 7.10 latest release version.

Thanks

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

On Nov 27, 2007 1:30 PM, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:

> I got round this problem with the "special" Devede version on Fabio's
> website.
>
> I'm not familiar with backports, how can I now install a "real, clean"
> version of Devede from the repositories using the new improved Mplayer?
>
> I'm running 7.10 latest release version.
>
> Thanks
>
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[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

Thanks, but as a relatively beginner who wants to learn I found that answer as helpful as being pushed off a cliff and told to fly.

When will you "gurus" accept that some of us, although quite intelligent, may not have the brain power of the universe at our fingertips, as you lot seem to think you have.

Just help us out and maybe, just maybe, we'll persevere with Ubuntu and stick with it. If you are on some crusade, get people to join you, don't treat them with contempt.

Evangelists win converts, they don't totally antagonize them.

[Jonathan Cruz (drpfenderson)]

You need to go to your Software Sources, to the Third-Party Software
tab and add that address as a repository. Then just go to terminal
and:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

...if you have the old versions installed. If not, just:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder

Hope that helps a little more, Yeuclid.

On Nov 27, 2007 4:26 PM, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks, but as a relatively beginner who wants to learn I found that
> answer as helpful as being pushed off a cliff and told to fly.
>
> When will you "gurus" accept that some of us, although quite
> intelligent, may not have the brain power of the universe at our
> fingertips, as you lot seem to think you have.
>
> Just help us out and maybe, just maybe, we'll persevere with Ubuntu and
> stick with it. If you are on some crusade, get people to join you, don't
> treat them with contempt.
>
> Evangelists win converts, they don't totally antagonize them.
>
>
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> Distorted MP3 sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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[Jonathan Cruz (drpfenderson)]

Oops...I realized that I gave the insrtuctions for manually adding a repo.
You need to go to the Updates tab of Software Sources and checkmark
"Unsupported updates (gutsy-backports)" and then run the same commands
I listed in my last post.

Sorry about that!

On Nov 27, 2007 5:13 PM, Eris Siva <email address hidden> wrote:
> You need to go to your Software Sources, to the Third-Party Software
> tab and add that address as a repository. Then just go to terminal
> and:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> ...if you have the old versions installed. If not, just:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder
>
> Hope that helps a little more, Yeuclid.
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 4:26 PM, Yeuclid <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Thanks, but as a relatively beginner who wants to learn I found that
> > answer as helpful as being pushed off a cliff and told to fly.
> >
> > When will you "gurus" accept that some of us, although quite
> > intelligent, may not have the brain power of the universe at our
> > fingertips, as you lot seem to think you have.
> >
> > Just help us out and maybe, just maybe, we'll persevere with Ubuntu and
> > stick with it. If you are on some crusade, get people to join you, don't
> > treat them with contempt.
> >
> > Evangelists win converts, they don't totally antagonize them.
> >
> >
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> > Distorted MP3 sound
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751
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> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Eris Siva
> http://ufocus.org
> Get Firefox: http://getfirefox.com
>

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[Sergio Costas (rastersoft-gmail)]

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Yeuclid escribió:

Hi:

> When will you "gurus" accept that some of us, although quite
> intelligent, may not have the brain power of the universe at our
> fingertips, as you lot seem to think you have.

Ok, let's do it "the easy way":

Go to "System->Administration->Software Sources" (I'm using ubuntu in
spanish, so is possible that the names aren't exactly that. Here you
will have to try). It will ask you the password, because is an
administration tool.

Now, in that new tool, go to the tab "Third party software", check the
option "Unsupported updates (gutsy-backports)" and close the window with
the "Close" button (don't use the X in the window bar). It will ask you
to reload the packages list: do it.

Now go to "System->Administration->Synaptic" and install the
Mplayer/Mencoder packages.

When you have finished, you can uncheck the "Unsupported updates
(gusty-backports)" option to avoid the update manager to replace other
packages. Or you can leave it and have your system with the really last
versions of the packages (remember that in Backports are always newer
versions than in the official distribution, but they aren't officially
supported.

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           RASTER (Linux user #228804)
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[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

I was very short in my answer for a reason. As much as we can all
point you at how to activate backports, there are appropriate places
to ask things like this such as launchpad answers, the forums, mailing
list, or irc.
This isn't meant to come across as pompous, but rather to avoid
putting bug spam not relevant to developers and users watching this bug.

--
Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>
Sent from my iPod Touch

On Nov 27, 2007, at 16:48, Raster <email address hidden> wrote:

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> Yeuclid escribió:
>
> Hi:
>
>> When will you "gurus" accept that some of us, although quite
>> intelligent, may not have the brain power of the universe at our
>> fingertips, as you lot seem to think you have.
>
> Ok, let's do it "the easy way":
>
> Go to "System->Administration->Software Sources" (I'm using ubuntu in
> spanish, so is possible that the names aren't exactly that. Here you
> will have to try). It will ask you the password, because is an
> administration tool.
>
> Now, in that new tool, go to the tab "Third party software", check the
> option "Unsupported updates (gutsy-backports)" and close the window
> with
> the "Close" button (don't use the X in the window bar). It will ask
> you
> to reload the packages list: do it.
>
> Now go to "System->Administration->Synaptic" and install the
> Mplayer/Mencoder packages.
>
> When you have finished, you can uncheck the "Unsupported updates
> (gusty-backports)" option to avoid the update manager to replace other
> packages. Or you can leave it and have your system with the really
> last
> versions of the packages (remember that in Backports are always newer
> versions than in the official distribution, but they aren't officially
> supported.
>
> - --
> Nos leemos
> RASTER (Linux user #228804)
> <email address hidden> http://www.rastersoft.com
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[Yeuclid (cfraser)]

To all who responded to my earlier blow-up I thank you.

Apologies if this is not the correct place to air these issues, but I get really exasperated when those with knowledge do not appear to want to share it.

I used to be a teacher, and imparting knowledge is an ethos I strongly believe in.

I also believe in the philosophy of Ubuntu - Tolerance and Humanity........ let us ALL learn