[vlc] Strange sound file

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le dimanche 6 septembre 2009 19:26:02 Eugen Dedu, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I do not know much about audio.  The "newmessage.wav" file from
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/ekiga/tree/sounds is strange because aplay
> plays it correctly, vlc plays it but not the same thing is heard (only
> the second part of the file is heard), and xmms does not play it at all.
>  Standard windows programs do not play it either.  Could someone tell me
> what's special with this file?

I cannot see anything wrong.

> Is this a bug in vlc too?

VLC is cropping part of the file due to buffering and initialization 
latencies. This is a generic bug in VLC, but it can only be heard with very 
short files.

I don't know what's wrong with XMMS.

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