Greetings. I've noticed that MPlayer's idea of the current time in FLAC files is strange. It tends to be inaccurate, at least for me. What I have observed: * The timecode starts out stuck at some non-zero value and "flickers" around very close to it. Once the playback gets to that time, the timecode starts moving forward in almost a normal way. If I seek back to the beginning, it does the same thing over again. * The timecode tends to drift a bit ahead of the true time over the course of playback, usually by several seconds. * Sometimes, the timecode will jump back a bit. My investigations suggest this is associated with runs of (near-)silence in the audio. Also, if there is silence (as in the signal is exactly zero or *very* close) at the end, the playback cuts off at the beginning of it. Fortunately, the sound output is otherwise fine. For anyone who's interested, I made a video closely comparing plyback of an LPCM WAV and a FLAC of the same audio, viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATVfWarLY0 . The video itself has no audio with it; it just shows the command-line status display. There's a lot of variability in behavior across different files, but what you can see there is typical. To be fair, I see problems with FLAC in other applications. For instance, I'm only getting mono output in XMMS2. Another application replaces small chunks of audio with bursts of noise. In other words, maybe FLAC is just problematic for direct playback. Is this the case? Thanks.
