Debian Bug report logs - #312185
vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:47:58 -0400

Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.0.1-1.4
Severity: normal


Starting with this '.spx' file (16K):

    http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/audio/demos/female_scrub.spx

Which is a female voice saying "these days... these days... (etc.) ... 
the chicken... is a rare dish."

My system can play that with 'cplay' or 'totem', but not 'ogg123':

    % ogg123 -d esd female_scrub.spx

    Audio Device:   ESounD output

    Playing: female_scrub.spx
    Ogg Speex stream: 2 channel, 8000 Hz, narrowband mode

    Done.
    % ogg123 -d alsa09 female_scrub.spx
    { same thing ... }
    % ogg123 -d oss female_scrub.spx
    { same thing ... }

...it always clicks, then is silent.  I tried to write it to a '.wav' file:

    % ogg123 -d wav -f /tmp/female_scrub.wav female_scrub.spx

    Audio Device:   WAV file output

    Playing: female_scrub.spx
    Ogg Speex stream: 2 channel, 8000 Hz, narrowband mode

    Done.
    % ls -og /tmp/female_scrub.wav
    -rw-r--r--  1 495404 Jun  6 02:16 /tmp/female_scrub.wav

...but the '.wav' is silent with any player.  Compressing
it suggests the reason:

    % gzip /tmp/female_scrub.wav
    % ls -og /tmp/female_scrub.*
    -rw-r--r--  1 584 Jun  6 02:16 /tmp/female_scrub.wav.gz

>From 495404 bytes down to 584 means it has virtually no data.  Therefore
this bug doesn't depend on my hardware or config -- because
writing to '.wav' is pure software.


Hope this helps...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages vorbis-tools depends on:
ii  libao2                      0.8.6-1      Cross Platform Audio Output Librar
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcurl3                    7.13.2-2     Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libflac6                    1.1.1-5      Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libidn11                    0.5.13-1.0   GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libogg0                     1.1.2-1      Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  liboggflac1                 1.1.1-5      Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libspeex1                   1.1.6-2      The Speex Speech Codec
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7g-1     SSL shared libraries
ii  libvorbis0a                 1.1.0-1      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2               1.1.0-1      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3              1.1.0-1      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 312185@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>

To: A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>, 312185@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#312185: vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:55:28 +0200

tag 312185 confirmed
thanks

* A Costa [Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:47:58 -0400]:

> Package: vorbis-tools
> Version: 1.0.1-1.4
> Severity: normal


> Starting with this '.spx' file (16K):

>     http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/audio/demos/female_scrub.spx

> Which is a female voice saying "these days... these days... (etc.) ... 
> the chicken... is a rare dish."

> My system can play that with 'cplay' or 'totem', but not 'ogg123':

  Uhm, this doesn't work with vorbis-tools at 1.0.1-1.2 either. Do you
  know if it used to work with some previous version?

-- 
Adeodato Simó
    EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621
 
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing
but together can decide that nothing can be done.
                -- Fred Allen

Message #17 received at 312185@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "A. Costa" <agcosta@gis.net>

To: 312185@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>

Subject: Re: Bug#312185: vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:33:29 -0400

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:55:28 +0200
Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es> wrote:

>   Uhm, this doesn't work with vorbis-tools at 1.0.1-1.2 either. Do you
>   know if it used to work with some previous version?

Not me.  Wish I could tell you more, but I've only tested this bug with
v1.0.1-1.4, as described in my earlier report.

Message #28 received at 312185@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Steghöfer <martin@steghoefer.eu>

To: 312185@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#312185: vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:34:10 +0100

Bug still reproducible with vorbis-tools 1.4.0-4.

As this issue happens mostly with this specific file, a decoding issue 
would stand to reason. However, the issue happens even after transcoding 
the speex file to ogg vorbis (using audacity). As it's very unlikely 
that the actual waveform is causing the issue, the trigger has to be 
some other data that survives the transcoding, like sampling rate or 
number of channels.

Cheers,
Martin

Message #33 received at 312185@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Steghöfer <martin@steghoefer.eu>

To: 312185@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#312185: vorbis-tools: ogg123 plays speex files wrong: clicks, then silence.

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:16:01 +0100

Martin Steghöfer wrote:
> However, the issue happens even after transcoding the speex file to 
> ogg vorbis (using audacity).

This assessment was based and on a file mix-up in my testing process and 
is wrong. The issue is speex-specific.

The problem occurs with speex files that declare 2 channels in the 
header, but don't provide any in-band stereo signal before the first 
sample. As far as I can see, the speex standard allows this, it is never 
even mentioned that any in-band stereo signal has to be sent at all. So 
ogg123 should be able to handle this case.

However, the initialization of the stereo information data structure in 
ogg123 doesn't happen until the first in-band stereo signal is received. 
For all samples before the first stereo signal, the stereo information 
data structure is used in an uninitialized state and therefore produces 
distortions/noise/silence.

The patch in git commit fb82b1de29 fixes the problem by using the proper 
libspeex functions for handling the life cycle of the stereo information 
data structure.

Message #42 received at 312185-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>

To: 312185-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#312185: fixed in vorbis-tools 1.4.0-7

Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:11:29 +0000

Source: vorbis-tools
Source-Version: 1.4.0-7

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vorbis-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 312185@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org> (supplier of updated vorbis-tools package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:15:44 +0000
Source: vorbis-tools
Binary: vorbis-tools vorbis-tools-dbg
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.0-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Xiph.org Maintainers <pkg-xiph-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Description:
 vorbis-tools - several Ogg Vorbis tools
 vorbis-tools-dbg - several Ogg Vorbis tools (debug files)
Closes: 239073 312185 728062 771448 772391 772766 772976 772978 776086 797461
Changes:
 vorbis-tools (1.4.0-7) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Martin Steghöfer ]
   * Format patches for gbp-pq, correct tagging and add missing
     information to tagging.
   * Add sampling rate sanity check to avoid crash (in case of unpatched
     libvorbis version) or to improve error message (with patched libvorbis).
   * Fix vorbistagedit: Reading of file list from stdin was broken.
     (Closes: #771448)
   * Documentation of vorbistagedit: Improve wording of error message.
   * Fix bashism in /usr/bin/vorbistagedit (negative status code).
     (Closes: #772391)
   * Truncate long status lines on small terminals (Closes: #239073)
   * Fix ogg123 speex stereo playback: Initialize stereo information
     data structure (Closes: #312185)
   * Fix ogg123 speex playback: Initialize channel matrix (Closes: #772766)
   * Add low-priority mailcap entry for "ogginfo" on action "cat".
     (Closes: #728062)
   * Fix oggdec crash/hang: Don't ignore stream errors (Closes: #772978)
   * Use translations in oggdec (Closes: #772976)
 .
   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
   * Add debian/gbp.conf to enforce the user of pristine-tar.
   * oggenc: Fix large alloca on bad AIFF input to oggenc
     (CVE-2015-6749). (Closes: #797461)
   * oggenc: Validate count of channels in the header
     (CVE-2014-9638, CVE-2014-9639). (Closes: #776086)
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