I use my home dvd recorder to record radio programmes from DVB broadcasts so I can listen to them later. I then use mplayer to rip the audio from the recordings to wav files and subsequently to mp3s/ogg using appropriate encoders. This worked great when I was on an older distribution of ubunutu (Dapper - yes, very old I know). Now I am on a modern distribtion (9.10) I am hearing some small clicks in the play back of the sound. I did not notice these at first, but now I have noticed them they have suddenly become very annoying. To rip the audio I use: mplayer dvd://n -v -aid 128 -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:file=filename.wav Here is a very short recording I made with the old distribution with no clicks. http://www.btinternet.com/~john.tomo/stuff/homePlanet-noclick.mp3 Now compare this with a recording I made from the same DVD using the version of mplayer that comes with ubuntu 9.10. http://www.btinternet.com/~john.tomo/stuff/homePlanet-click.mp3 There is a definite 'click' as the presenter says "three hundred and three" near the end of the recording. I am reasonable confident that the clicks are not the classic 'xruns' as they always occur at the same point in the play back. They occur even on normal playback of the original DVD as well. Any suggestions or config. changes? John Tomlinson
