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 libavcodec52 5:0.6.2-0.1 library to encode decode multimedi ii libavutil50 5:0.6.2-0.1 avutil shared libraries - runtime ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.10-4 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libqtcore4 4:4.7.2-3 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.7.2-3 Qt 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 libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.4.3-1 Xlib/XCB interface library ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-randr0 1.7-2 X C Binding, randr extension ii libxcb-shm0 1.7-2 X C Binding, shm extension ii libxcb-xv0 1.7-2 X C Binding, xv extension ii libxcb1 1.7-2 X C Binding ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-1 X11 pixmap library ii ttf-freefont 20100919-1 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-notify 1.1.7-3 LibNotify plugin for VLC ii vlc-plugin-pulse 1.1.7-3 PulseAudio plugin for VLC ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from Versions of packages vlc suggests: pn mozilla-plugin-vlc <none> (no description available) pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available) Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on: ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-15 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-client3 0.6.29-1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.29-1 Avahi common library ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi ii libavcodec52 5:0.6.2-0.1 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 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcaca0 0.99.beta17-1 colour ASCII art library ii libcddb2 1.3.2-2 library to access CDDB data - runt ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control CD-ROM ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.6-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdc1394-22 2.1.3-1 high level programming interface f ii libdca0 0.0.5-4 decoding library for DTS Coherent ii libdirac-encoder0 1.0.2-3 open and royalty free high quality ii libdvbpsi6 0.1.7-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-7 DVD navigation library ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-10 library for reading DVDs ii libebml3 1.2.0-2 access library for the EBML format ii libfaad2 2.7-6 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - ii libflac8 1.2.1-3 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library ii libgcrypt11 1.4.6-5 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgnutls26 2.10.5-1+b1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.10-0.3 library for common error values an ii libkate1 0.3.8-1 Kate is a codec for karaoke and te ii liblircclient0 0.9.0~pre1-1 infra-red remote control support - ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-5 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro ii libmad0 0.15.1b-6 MPEG audio decoder library ii libmatroska3 1.1.0-2 extensible open standard audio/vid ii libmodplug1 1:0.8.8.1-2 shared libraries for mod music bas ii libmpcdec6 2:0.1~r459-1 MusePack decoder - library ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr ii libmtp8 1.0.6-2 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libogg0 1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-2 PNG library - runtime ii libpostproc51 5:0.6.2-0.1 postproc shared libraries ii libproxy0 0.3.1-2 automatic proxy configuration mana ii libraw1394-11 2.0.7-1 library for direct access to IEEE ii libschroedinger-1.0-0 1.0.9-2 library for encoding/decoding of D ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming ii libsmbclient 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1 shared library for communication w ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libswscale0 5:0.6.2-0.1 ffmpeg video scaling library ii libtag1c2a 1.7-1 audio meta-data library ii libtheora0 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video Compression Codec ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar ii libudev0 167-3 libudev shared library ii libupnp3 1:1.6.6-5 Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, ver ii libv4l-0 0.8.3-1 Collection of video4linux support ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract information fro ii libvlc5 1.1.7-3 multimedia player and streamer lib ii libvlccore4 1.1.7-3 base library for VLC and its modul ii libvorbis0a 1.3.2-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.3.2-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libvlc5 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libvlccore4 1.1.7-3 base library for VLC and its modul Versions of packages libvlccore4 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.6-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii vlc-data 1.1.7-3 Common data for VLC Versions of packages vlc is related to: ii libavutil50 5:0.6.2-0.1 avutil shared libraries - runtime pn libavutil51 <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
