I've now upgraded to Maverick and can confirm that the MP3 no longer plays in VLC at all, though it still plays fine in gxine. It appears as it's playing, with only silence. Console messages are:
VLC media player 1.1.4 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE") [0xce7120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x7f0c9cac9b20, 0x7f0c9cac9a80) Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1) Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1) Warning: call to srand(1286618890) Warning: call to rand() Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") (process:5142): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1) Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1) Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") -- VLC emits "static", depletes available memory on certain MP3s https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611494 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs