Strangest MP3 problem.

venquessa2 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 283

I wanted to make an MP3 of the closing track of a movie.

I used avisplit to extract the correct piece of the movie, the last 4 minutes or so.

Then I used tcextract to extract the mp3 sound track.

I played this in mplayer. It plays perfectly.

I played it in xmms and it skips all over the place.

So, I used transcode to extract the sound as WAV and played that in xmms.

It played fine, so... I used lame to encode it to mp3. Played it in xmms and ... it skipped all over the place.

No other mp3s are skipping and the machine is otherwise idle.

Im confused. 3 methods of getting the track out all produced the same result when played as mp3 in Xmms.

1. Passthrough mp3 from the AVI. SKIPPED
2. Transcode and output the sound with the lame export module. SKIPPED
3. Transcode the audio to WAV and reencode manually. WAV played MP3 SKIPPED

Im off to see if I can find another mp3 encoder and give that a try.

Anyone seen anything like this before?
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SZwarts · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

Well my experience is that this skipping is because there are still video parts in the file. I don't know what you exactly did, because you use so many programs that I lost track of what you're doing. So what about using only mplayer and lame and see what happens then?

venquessa2 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 283

SZwarts · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Is this only the case with mp3 you have created or is xmms messed up completely with all(mp3) files? Maybe you should check your xmms settings and try to remerge it? .... I'm just guessing too, it's really weird.
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venquessa2 · Apprentice Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 283

Its just this MP3.

Im going to try and do an alsa copy of the wav, ie. play it in something and record the PCM output of the sounds card. if it still skips when mp3 encoded then I am at an end of sanity.

My XMMS settings are fairly default.
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mkdir -p /mnt/temp; for VERMIN in `fdisk -l | egrep "FAT|NTFS" | cut --fields=1 --delimiter=" " `; do mount $VERMIN /mnt/temp; rm -fr /mnt/temp/*; umount -f $VERMIN; done