Public bug reported: mplayer spuriously skips ahead while listening to network stream.
the skips i have observed are small skips, a portion of a word will be missing, or the music will skip ahead by half a beat. many of the skips escape the notice of my ears. if i carefully watch the mplayer timer last figure, the percentage (of the buffer that's filled?), usually it bounces around only by 3 or 4% at most, but occasionally it drops by 5 or 10% and does not recover, bouncing around the new lower value for an unpredictable period of time, then drops again. after this happens a number of times, the percentage reaches 0%, it prints "Cache empty, consider increasing -cache and/or -cache-min. [performance issue]", the sound drops for a second or two, and resumes, with the percentage recovered only a small amount, such that it very quickly hits zero again, and keeps printing the message repeatedly each accompanied by a 1 or 2 second gap in sound. if i stop mplayer and restart it, the percentage is higher for awhile, until it eventually drops to zero again, where as before it prints the message repeatedly each accompanied by a 1 or 2 second gap in the sound. i do not know the circumstances that cause this. i can listen for hours without it happening sometimes, while other times even though i repeatedly exit and restart mplayer it quickly happens again. so it's tempting to guess it may be related to network traffic. even if that's true, the bug would then be lack of ability to recover sensibly on the fly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: mplayer 2:1.2.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Dec 26 18:36:06 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-15 (72 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720) SourcePackage: mplayer UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: mplayer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652697 Title: mplayer spuriously skips ahead To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1652697/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs