[MPlayer-users] Re: BUG - Garbled output playing realaudio

[Bryan Alton]

Neil Sleightholm wrote:

> Bryan Alton wrote:
> 
>> By going wrong - you mean it was still producing the continuous
>> choppy audio and not just fragments of choppy audio with gaps of
>> silence.  Has it happened often or just once so far ?
> 
> It was going wrong a staying wrong. It did this 3 or 4 times (I stopped
> playback between each). I then restored your previous patch just to see
> if it was the BBC and I could here a lot of errors but they all
> recoevered.
> 
> I then made sure I had implemented your changes correctly and
> recompiled. It has now been running for over an hour without going
> wrong!
> 
> I am going to copy it to my server and see if it runs ok there.
> 
> Neil

That is strange.  The main difference in the new patch is that when 
creating a packet to make up for a loss it has a choice. There is
no fundamental difference in the error detection code.  There are
a few extra checks to prevent other RealAudio formats falling
into this code - perhaps I have missed some condition.  At the start of
new Mplayer patch it should produce a couple of lines of text prefixed by "Live"
- these are the parameters of the RealAudio stream.  If you can copy them
it might help.

What time of day did this happen ?

Bryan