[vorbis] GCC bug affects playback?

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug McNaught" <doug at wireboard.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: [vorbis] GCC bug affects playback?

> At work, I have the binary RPMs from vorbis.com, which I understand
> were compiled with the buggy egcs 2.91.xx, and XMMS 1.2.5 from
> xmms.org (also binary RPM).
> 
> When I play ogg files (encoded on my home machine, burned to CD) at
> work, I get "skips"--it sounds like a few frames are just dropped from
> the playback once in a while.  Very disconcerting.  It doesn't seem to
> happen with mp3's played the same way (though I'm going to keep
> testing).
> 
> Is this a known failure mode of playback libraries compiled with buggy 
> GCC?  

Not AFAIK, although ogg123 has a known problem similar to what you
describe because it doesn't prebuffer.

Are there no fixed binary RPM's available? 


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GCP

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