[Flac-dev] xmms-plugin problem

[Josh Coalson]

not email, but if you have a place to host it you can send
me the location privately.

85 seconds to seek on the machine you describe is definitely
not acceptable!  looking at the seek code again, I'm guessing
that song encoded at a wildly variable bit rate but I will be
able to tell more with the actual sample.

Josh

--- Jan Suhr <jan.suhr at freenet.de> wrote:
> ok,
> I tried a few songs and it seems to me, that the seek problem appears
> 
> only with some songs. Also I have songs where is no problem.
> Josh, should I mail you a problematic song?
> 
> Jan
> 
> On Tuesday, 15. January 2002 15:38, you wrote:
> > --- Jan Suhr <jan.suhr at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > hello!
> > > I use flac 1.0.2 with xmms 1.2.5 . The problem appears when I use
> > > the scroll bar to listen a few second forward in the song ("seek
> to
> > > ...").
> > > Then xmms does'nt react and stops playing music for a few
> seconds.
> > > After these few second xmms works fine again and plays the song.
> > > The length of these pause is longer when I want to listen near
> the
> > > end of the song; its shorter when I want to listen near the
> > > beginning of the song.
> > > Is this a problem in the plugin?
> >
> > I would not be surprised, even though I haven't seen this
> > in a while.  I'm still not totally satisfied with the
> > speed of the seek routine in libFLAC yet.
> >
> > but, if you encoded with the default seek table, it should
> > not be that slow, even if the file is really big.  the only
> > thing I can think of is that the file has wide swings in the
> > bitrate that make searching for the right frame harder.
> >
> > Josh


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