Hey Oggers, I have a RedHat 7.1 machine at home, and a 6.2 system at work. After seeing Monty's announcement of the GCC optimize bug, I compiled my ogg-tools package at home with RedHat's 2.96 gcc (the errata version, not the original buggy version). I have no problems playing encoded ogg files on my home machine--they sound great. 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? The work box has an old CDROM and sound card (ISA SB AWE64) so it's not impossible that the skips come from another link in the chain, but MP3's do seem to play back OK so far. If it were easy, I'd try to upgrade gcc and recompile the ogg stuff and xmms, but RH hasn't seen fit to release an updated compiler for 6.2, so I'd have to build one from source. -Doug -- Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/ We will return to our regularly scheduled signature shortly. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:> 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).Sorry to followup to myself, but I am definitely getting skips on mp3 files as well. I guess it's a hardware or driver problem. Sorry to bother everybody... -Doug -- Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/ We will return to our regularly scheduled signature shortly. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug McNaught" <doug@wireboard.com> To: <vorbis@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? -- GCP --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.