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

[Neil Sleightholm]

Bryan Alton wrote:

> I think have a fix for this problem.  I have tested it with all the
> BBC live real streams and it seems to work.  I haven't tested to see
> if it interferes with other Real streams.  A few times Mplayer has
> stopped, I don't know if this is as a result of my fix or just the
> network.  My tests were run on SuSe 9.3 and I will be building a
> Windows version as soon as I setup a compile environment.
> 
> The messages in the fix will be gewnerated with -v 1 so that you can
> see if packet loss was detected.  I fill in the gaps with the
> previous packet which result in a short burst of choppy audio.  If
> you get a burst of errors, then you will hear a longer burst of
> choppy audio but the stream usually settles down.  I can live with
> this but I can suggest a better solution if somebody wants to do the
> work.
> 
> My changes are to one file libmpdemux/demux_real.c.  A diff file is
> included below.  I made the changed to a recent release but
> demux_real.c hasn't changed much in months so the changes will work
> back to other versions.
> 

I will try this on Windows today and let you know what I find.

Thanks

Neil