[MPlayer-users] video fine, but audio scratchy and distorted

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 15 November 2006 at 09:20, Johann Amin wrote:
> 
> >I run MPlayer on Fedora 6. I want to play DivX files. The video shows
> >up just fine, but the sound comes across as a very (and I mean VERY)
> >computer distorted sound. You can just barely tell the distortion is
> >based on the original sound, but it is like the computer version of
> >scratching fingernails on a chalk board.
> >
> >Of the video files I have, I can play ASF, WMV, and MOV with no
> >problems. I have the sound/audio problem with MPEG (MPG) audio, it
> >looks like. I had the problem both in an MPG file and the MPEG audio
> >in DivX files.
> >
> >I searched the web for days and only found one other person who
> > seemed to have a problem like mine...here on this list. He seemed to
> > have accidentally solved his problem, and not really knowing how he
> > fixed it could not help much. I tried removing and reinstalling
> > MPlayer. I installed the DivX codecs (thinking maybe the MPlayer I
> > had did not have those codecs automatically).
> >
> >If it helps, here is what I get when I run "mplayer --version":
> >
> >MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> >CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (Family: 6, Model: 4, Stepping: 2)
> >CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >  
> I too can confirm that the mplayer default package for FC6 is stuffed. 
> All mp2 & mp3 audio play with only static sound. Other formats such as 
> ac3, vorbis & pcm are good. I don't think this is any fault of the 
> mplayer developers but more the fault of the packager of mplayer for 
> FC6. I got the latest svn and compiled my own. Works like a charm.

There was a bug in mp3lib decoder which has been fixed in SVN. It is
audible only on Athlon CPUs (and, I suspect, any 3DNow-capable ones).

Regards,
R.

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