Bug#629158: mplayer: cdda playback pauses every 15 seconds due to buffering

[Michael Deegan]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1-2
Severity: normal

Playback of CDs is currently unusable as mplayer reads 15 seconds of audio
at a time, which seems to be long enough for the disk to spin down by the
time it wants to read the next chunk. This results in a 5 second pause
every 15 seconds during playback.

Also occurs in marillat's squeeze version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (490, 'testing'), (470, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1            1.4p5-38               ascii art library
ii  libasound2        1.0.23-2.1             shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2         1.9.2-4                Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52      4:0.6.2-3              Libav codec library
ii  libavformat52     4:0.6.2-3              Libav file format library
ii  libavutil50       4:0.6.2-3              Libav utility library
ii  libc6             2.11.2-10              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0          0.99.beta17-1          colour ASCII art library
ii  libcdparanoia0    3.10.2+debian-9        audio extraction tool for sampling
ii  libdca0           0.0.5-3                decoding library for DTS Coherent 
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-9 1.2.10.0-4             direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libdvdnav4        4.1.3-7                DVD navigation library
ii  libdvdread4       4.1.3-10               library for reading DVDs
ii  libenca0          1.13-3                 Extremely Naive Charset Analyser -
ii  libesd0           0.2.41-8               Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1    2.8.0-2.1              generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6      2.4.2-2.1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0       0.19.2-1               Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1           1:4.4.5-8              GCC support library
ii  libgif4           4.1.6-9                library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [ 7.7.1-4                A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libjack0 [libjack 1:0.118+svn3796-7      JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62         6b1-1                  The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0    0.8.3-5                infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblzo2-2         2.03-2                 data compression library
ii  libncurses5       5.7+20100313-5         shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0           1.2.0~dfsg-1           Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenal1        1:1.12.854-2           Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpng12-0        1.2.44-1               PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51     4:0.6.2-3              Libav video postprocessing library
ii  libpulse0         0.9.21-3+squeeze1      PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsdl1.2debian   1.2.14-6.1             Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmbclient      2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2 shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1         1.2~rc1-1              The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6        4.6.0-2                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1          1:1.4.3-29             console SVGA display libraries
ii  libswscale0       4:0.6.2-3              Libav video scaling library
ii  libtheora0        1.1.1+dfsg.1-3         The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvdpau1         0.4.1-2                Video Decode and Presentation API 
ii  libx11-6          2:1.3.3-4              X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6          2:1.1.2-1              X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1      2:1.1-3                X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6            1:1.0.7-1              X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1            2:1.0.5-1              X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1          2:1.0.5-1              X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1      2:1.1.1-2              X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1       1:1.1.0-2              X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3       compression library - runtime

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2         1.0.5-6                    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  fontconfig    2.8.0-2.1                  generic font configuration library
ii  fping         2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1         sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii  mplayer-doc   2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.2 Documentation for mplayer
ii  ttf-freefont  20090104-7                 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

-- debconf information:
  mplayer/voutput: autodetect
  mplayer/ttfont: ${ttfontdefault}
  mplayer/cfgnote:
  mplayer/replace-existing-files-bail:
  mplayer/replace-existing-files: false
  mplayer/no-ttfont:
  mplayer/install_codecs:
  mplayer/dvd_device: /dev/cdrom

-MD

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Michael Deegan                Hugaholic                http://www.deegan.id.au/
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