[MPlayer-users] mplayer breaks end of audio file

[Sergey]

Hello, mplayer-users.

  I'm using mplayer for a long time. And I've collected information
about a few bugs related to it. Since the number of bugs grows I've
decided to write about them. Most of them were found in win32 builds.
  Here is one of them.

  When playing audio-only file (.wav) starting from one of
autumn-winter 2006 versions mplayer strips end of such file.
It'd stripped it before, when using -ao dsound. But then mplayer
started stripping end of file even for -ao win32.
  Samples (279 KB and 40 KB):
    http://www10.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=38951
    http://www10.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=38953
(open page and click "Download file" link near top of the page)

Steps to reproduce:
1. take mplayer.exe file alone (place it in empty directory)
2. run mplayer.exe -ao win32 samplefile.wav
3. play same file with another player and compare results

UPDATE:
  Starting from version near 1.0rc1 mplayer does not strip end of
  file for -ao win32, but instead it plays extra noise just after
  end of file. This had not happened before.
  It still strips end for -ao dsound.
  (Last checked for dev-SVN-r22060-4.2.0)

UPDATE2:
  There're similar problems for linux version, but it depends
  on audio driver being used (checked for 1.0rc1-4.1.1):
  -ao oss:  there's a short 'noise' after end of file
  -ao alsa: there's noise, progress status stops updating before EOF
  -ao arts: there's noise, mplayer exits before EOF is played
  (audio continues playing for a second after mplayer exits)
  -ao esd: no noise
  -ao sdl: no noise, but mplayer does not stop after end of file
  (plays silence forever)

-- 
  Sergey