I think there is a second bug here that is compounding the problem: the mplayer.conf file isn't reading the codec setting correctly.
>From my experimenting passing "-ac mad" as a manual setting in the Misc tab of DeVeDe works OK, but the "ac=mad," setting isn't picked up from either the global or personal config files. There seems to be a cascading order of priority for setting the codec used: mplayer.conf -> ~/.mplayer/config -> DeVeDe 'extra parameters'. This cascade only happens if there is a comma at the end of the ac line otherwise it stops with no codec being used resulting in no audio track. Some examples: 1. mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters' ac=mad, <empty> <empty> The mplayer.conf mad setting isn't read correctly but the comma is. Finding nothing else in the other two places the default (buggy) mp3lib mp3 codec is used. Because of the parsing error this setting may as well be "ac=aksdjfhaslrtaf," i.e. the codec in mplayer.conf apparently doesn't exist 2. mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters' ac=mad, <empty> -ac mad Again the mplayer.conf mad setting isn't read correctly but the comma is. Finding mad in the extra parameters the libmad mad codec is used and everything is fine. If "-ac mp3" is passed in the DeVeDe parameters then we are back to the distorted soundtrack again 3. mplayer.conf ~/.mplayer/config DeVeDe 'extra parameters' ac=mad, ac=mad -ac mad In this case the settings in both config files are read incorrectly but there is no comma in the personal file so the DeVeDe settings aren't used either. The result is no audio codec is used so there isn't a sound track I noticed that this also appears to hold true for the afm setting. I hope this helps. In the meantime I'm manually setting the audio codec for each recording Cheers -- Distorted MP3 sound https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85751 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
