Bug#559247: mplayer: Displays wrong duration for some vbr mp3 files.

[Philipp Weis]

On 2009-12-05 10:16, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> Philipp Weis <pweis at pweis.com> writes:
> 
> > Package: mplayer
> > Version: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > For some variable bitrate mp3 files, mplayer displays the wrong
> > duration. I created a sample file and put it online here:
> >
> >   http://pweis.com/stuff/vbr-sample.mp3
> >
> > The file is a 11 second recording of noise, compressed with
> >
> >   lame -v in.wav out.mp3
> >
> > Mplayer, using the default mp3lib ("-ac mp3"), says the file is 8
> > seconds long, but it is 11 seconds. with "-ac ffmp3", the correct
> > duration is shown.
> >
> Looking at the upstream commits, there have been done a lot of commits
> in mp3lib/ since the mplayer rc3.

> Next steps for this bug: compile mplayer from svn trunk and check if the
> problem has been fixed upstream. If yes, then bisect the commits until
> the fix is found. Any takers?

Ok, I just tested this with the latest svn revision, and the problem
still persists. Reported upstream at

  http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1610

Philipp

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