[MPlayer-users] Mplayer makes small popping/static sound when speed_set is used

[cooleyr at gmail.com]

Have you tried muting sound, setting the new frequency, then unmuting?

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 7:34 PM Brad Hermanson <apeitheo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Over the past two years I've developed a command-line front-end to MPlayer
> called Aletheia that features front-and-center pitch controls using music
> intervals (e.g. 1/12 of an interval for a semitone, but works with any
> EDO), and it utilizes speed_set to adjust. Everything works great; however,
> there is a slight clicking/popping/static sound on a speed_set change. It's
> not a big problem and I feel like it might be out of my control; perhaps
> even a symptom inherent to the audio frequency itself. I was wondering if
> anyone had any ideas on if this could be reduced or eliminated if it is
> something that can be fixed? It seems that even small increments produce
> the sound and I can't imagine it's my code as I'm just sending commands to
> a pipe to mplayer. I thought that perhaps mplayer itself could scale small
> increments to reduce the static, or perhaps another solution would be
> better. Aletheia is just a bash script, so the optimization would likely
> have to come from your end.
>
> https://github.com/apeitheo/aletheia
>
> Thank you in advance for any help or insight into this matter.
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