[LAU] VLC Bug?

[Thomas Vecchione]

I have seen this as well, and thus keep my VLC player lower on my machine.

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 21:05 +0100, Federico Bruni wrote:
> > Il 16/03/2013 00:48, Ralf Mardorf ha scritto:
> > > If I play a MP3 with
> > >
> > > $ pacman -Q vlc
> > > vlc 2.0.5-4
> > >
> > > by jack and the volume is set to 100%, I hear and see clipping in
> > > hdspmixer. It goes up to 0 dBFS at around 90%. FWIW the volume can be
> > > increased up to 200%.
> > >
> > > Anybody experiencing the same on (what distro ever)?
> > >
> >
> > I can't hear any clipping here (Debian testing) and
> > VLC media player 2.0.5 Twoflower (revision 2.0.5-0-g1661b7d)
> >
> > Of course the sound is distorted if I push up the volume, but no
> clipping.
> > I don't know how to see the volume levels in real time...
>
> Julien send me a MP3 of a modern pop song, so I guess the MP3 did reach
> 0dbFS, I didn't check it and I already deleted the file. However, it
> can't be more than 0dBFS, so I expect that at 100% it should be +- 0dB
> and shouldn't cause clipping. If you push it up to > 100% than clipping
> would cause distortion, that's ok. However, IMO something is fishy, if I
> need to decrease it to around 90%. I've got meters provided by
> hdspmixer.
>
> --
> Install pulseaudio, don't use jack
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/2013-March/000195.html
>
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