[Flac-dev] Fwd: Odd xmms plugin behavior

[Josh Coalson]

I'll be forwarding some posts from Matt since the list is blocking
him out...

--- Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:22:31 -0500
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org>
> To: flac-dev at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Odd xmms plugin behavior
> 
> While testing out the xmms plugin, I found that the 0.8 plugin would
not play a
> file I had just previously encoded with the 0.8 encoder.  The file
tested and
> decoded fine.  I added some debugging statements and such, and found
that
> FLAC__file_decoder_process_one_frame was setting status to
> FLAC__FILE_DECODER_STREAM_ERROR.  As I said, the 'flac' decoder could
decode
> the file just fine, and unless I'm mistaken, that uses the file
> decoder also.
> 
> The only odd thing about the input wave file was that it was 8bit
mono
> (22050Hz).  oN a hunch, I converted the wave file to CD audio format
> (16bit/stereo/44100Hz) with sox, and re-encoded it.  The plugin
played the
> resulting file fine.  I tried a few tests (converting to stereo and
leaving
> everything else the same, converting to 16 bit and leaving everything
else the
> same), and in every case the flac file wouldn't play.
> 
> The documentation seems to imply that formats other than
16bit/stereo/44100Hz
> are supported.  Is this a documentation bug, or a software bug?
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz


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