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grrrr. it was started being coded less than a week ago - ok?
don't expect it to be perfect just yet. be patient.
and yes, that bug has already been fixed.
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Kobazz
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it was meant to motivate u guys. just kidding. keep up the good work
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hello.
i haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet, but for folks following this thread, i thought it would be worth mentioning that the latest build supports gapless playback with paplayer/in_mp3.dll. i've checked it out and it's really nice. go grab a new build and see for yourself!
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pike
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yeah, and it's quite solid too, and lets not forget the audible ff/rew, working cuesupport for both cbr and vbr & gapless glory
all it's missing is a couple of more input plugins, replaygain support maybe and we have a nice musiccore imho
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jj5768
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thanks guys !! - this has been one of the annoyances which i thought we were stuck with...
who knows we may be on the road to a xbmc 1.2 and bug bash !!
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deltop
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amazing work guys, i'm very impressed with the new audio core. gapless, vbr, all working great.
i really am very impressed.
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Kobazz
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yess, great work!!! i was waiting for this.
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paplayer is a very welcome improvement. gapless playback and the audible seeking is excellent.
has anyone else noticed an occassional hiccup in playback with it though? every once in a while there will be a slight skip. is paplayer interacting with the buffer differently? i'm on a wireless network (54g), so the stutter is probably somehow related. the reason i bring it up is that mplayer has never stuttered during playback since xbmc's conception (what, 1.5 years ago?)
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the replaygain support is very welcomed. hopefully apev2 tags will be supported soon (apparently being worked on since the ape codec has been added to paplayer).
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i can also confirm the bug and it is not related ot the wireless network. even f yoiu increase the cache level it still happens. no stuttering experienced with mplayer and video...
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yes, mp3s. my mp3s are all vbr encoded with lame aps or apx. as others stated, the stuttering does not occur with mplayer.
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all:
cache means nothing to paplayer.
with mp3's we have the following memory blocks in use:
1. 64k read buffer for the mp3 file.
2. 4 frame (1152*4*4) buffer in the codec itself to allow for gapless playback.
3. 2 second buffer in the paplayer itself, of which at least 1 second is almost always full.
4. 1 second final output buffer.
with these, i have never had a single issue at all, but i am running over smb on a wired network.
perhaps we need additional buffers at either steps 1 or 3 (as these are what slow networks would produce.
to be honest though, reading from network should not be a problem at all with mp3 - the required datarate is so slow.
note that i've also never had issues with ape which have a much higher datarate.
i may add some more debugging output. trouble is it's very hard to add efficient targetted debugging without knowing what is causing this exactly.
cheers,
jonathan