Package: vlc
Version: 1.1.7-3
Severity: important
After an 'apt-get upgrade' (which upgraded vlc), the sound of
my radio station (a premium paid-for 'MPEG 1.0 layer III, 256 kbit/s,
44100 Hz joint-stereo' stream), started to sound HORRIBLE.
Like really really cheap. I detected that there was much less
clear high-tone, less depth and less stereo and that everything
sounded like there was a slight echo (as if standing in room
without furnature). I then tried to play an .mp3 file from harddisk
and it had the same sound quality. I could compare this with playing
it with mpg123 which sounded good to my ears (at least, sounded like
this is how it was encoded in the file).
Of course I tried to change preferences to see if I accidently
had enabled some audio filtering, but this wasn't the case as far
as I can tell.
I tried uninstalling everything related to vlc and reinstalling,
but it stays unacceptable. I have no removed vlc from my system
and am using mpg123 from a command line to play my radion stations,
very much not desirable, but the quality of vlc has dropped far
below what is tolerable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library
ii libavcodec525:0.6.2-0.1 library to encode decode multimedi
ii libavutil50 5:0.6.2-0.1 avutil shared libraries - runtime
ii libc6 2.11.2-11Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfreetype62.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.10-4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libqtcore4 4:4.7.2-3Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.7.2-3Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.10-2+b2 image loading library for Simple D
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.3 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtar 1.2.11-7 C library for manipulating tar arc
ii libva-x11-1 1.0.8-3 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii libva1 1.0.8-3 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii libvlccore4 1.1.7-3 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libx11-62:1.4.3-1X11 client-side library
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.4.3-1Xlib/XCB interface library
ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding
ii libxcb-randr0 1.7-2X C Binding, randr extension
ii libxcb-shm0 1.7-2X C Binding, shm extension
ii libxcb-xv0 1.7-2X C Binding, xv extension
ii libxcb1 1.7-2X C Binding
ii libxext62:1.2.0-2X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-1X11 pixmap library
ii ttf-freefont20100919-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii vlc-nox 1.1.7-3 multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages vlc recommends:
ii vlc-plugin-notify1.1.7-3 LibNotify plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-pulse 1.1.7-3 PulseAudio plugin for VLC
ii xdg-utils1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from
Versions of packages vlc suggests:
pn mozilla-plugin-vlc (no description available)
pn videolan-doc (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii liba52-0.7.40.7.4-15 library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libass4 0.9.11-1 library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend
ii libavahi-client30.6.29-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common30.6.29-1 Avahi common library
ii libavc1394-00.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi
ii libavcodec525:0.6.2-0.1 library to encode decode multimedi
ii libavformat52 5:0.6.2-0.1 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil50 5:0.6.2-0.1 avutil shared libraries - runtime
ii libc6 2.11.2-11Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcaca00.99.beta17-1colour ASCII art library
ii libcddb21.3.2-2 library to access CDDB data - ru