[ANN] vlc 0.2.70

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, PhiloVivero wrote:

> Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:
>
> > The buzz is probably an unavoidable artifact of downsampling from 48 to
> > 44 khz.  A bit of basic information theory ... when you do the
> > downsampling, anything in the 44-48 khz range will get 'folded' down
> > into the new range.  I expect that this is the source of the bug.  The
> > only solution (short of a much more cpu intensive downsampler) is
> > probably to get a sound card that supports 48khz.
>
> How can I check if the 44kHz downsampler is in effect when running VLC? If I'm
> running esd, do I have to tell it special to run @48kHz?

esd's 48->44 khz downsampler sounds REALLY horrid last I knew, as in
totally intolerable.  If VLC's isn't active, the audio will be
noticeably looow iinn piiitch aannd goo aaa biit tooo slooow.  But VLC's
always seems to be active for me (but then again, my soundcard can't do
48 khz, so ...)

-- 
	-Matt

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