Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Darac Marjal wrote, on 22/05/13 21:22:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a
> > particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in
> > mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in
> > mplayer2.
> >
> > The track can be extracted by cdparanoia and plays fine in vlc and
> > mplayer when saved as a .flac file, but fails in vlc and mplayer
> > when saved as a wav file.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a way to narrow down the problem so that a proper
> > bug report can be submitted?
>
>   * Can mplayer/vlc play the track directly from the CD? In VLC, do
>     "Media" > "Open Disc" > "Audio CD" > "Audio Track : X" > "Play"
>
>   * Can play/aplay/paplay play the WAV file?
>
>   * Can another ripper (perhaps on another OS) rip the track and provide
>     a usable WAV file?

The track fails to play when directly read off CD with vlc, but a .wav 
file extracted using cdparanoia plays fine with aplay.

As noted before the .wav file fails to play in vlc.

Arthur.