Subject: Issues with players and uade123

From: Melkor
Date: Thu Jun 15 15:14:02 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
Hello,

I'd like to report some issues about players (TFMX and MED) and uade123 itself. (using 2.02)

1/ TFMX : When I play the subsong 1 of &quot;mdat.Quick &amp; Silva&quot;, the default player of UADE (TFMX-Pro) misses some instruments (maybe an effect issue) but correctly reports the subsong count ([0, 3]). When I force the use of the player TFMX-Pro-THD, subsong count is buggy ([-1, 1]) but the subsong is played perfectly, exactly as it should be!

2/ MED : When I play &quot;med.Teijo Kinnunen - Starkelsesirap&quot;, I get a sample bug at the very beginning. The bug does not occur when pressing &quot;X&quot; during playback, only for the 1st play.

3/ uade123 : When I specify option &quot;-f foobar.wav&quot;, the --timeout option is ignored and even the builtin 512s timeout is ignored.

I plan to test the CVS version to see if these issues are still present.

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From: shd
Date: Thu Jun 15 17:54:33 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:f9d8e06562="Melkor"]
1/ TFMX : When I play the subsong 1 of &quot;mdat.Quick &amp; Silva&quot;, the default player of UADE (TFMX-Pro) misses some instruments (maybe an effect issue) but correctly reports the subsong count ([0, 3]). When I force the use of the player TFMX-Pro-THD, subsong count is buggy ([-1, 1]) but the subsong is played perfectly, exactly as it should be!
[/quote:f9d8e06562]

TFMX is a tough one generally. Maybe you should try to contact the author of that eagleplayer?

With the current cvs version it's possibly to create a workaround for that:
[code:1:f9d8e06562]uade123 --set=&quot;player=TFMX-Pro-TFHD&quot; MDAT.Quick\&amp;Silva_Ingame-CH 
[/code:1:f9d8e06562]

After that command, uade will always play that song with the given replayer. You can reset the options with --set again or edit ~/.uade2/song.conf manually.

[quote:f9d8e06562]2/ MED : When I play &quot;med.Teijo Kinnunen - Starkelsesirap&quot;, I get a sample bug at the very beginning. The bug does not occur when pressing &quot;X&quot; during playback, only for the 1st play.
[/quote:f9d8e06562]

Could you send me the module? [email-masked]

[quote:f9d8e06562]3/ uade123 : When I specify option &quot;-f foobar.wav&quot;, the --timeout option is ignored and even the builtin 512s timeout is ignored.

I plan to test the CVS version to see if these issues are still present.[/quote:f9d8e06562]

Does not happen on the current CVS.

$ uade123 -t32 -f /dev/null fc14.arcane-theme 
Song: fc14.arcane-theme (16672 bytes)
Playing time position 31.9s in subsong 0 (all subs 172.9s)  
Song end (timeout 32s)
Playing time position 32.0s in subsong 0 (all subs 172.9s)

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From: shd
Date: Fri Jun 16 07:06:41 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:f60b496227="Melkor"]2/ MED : When I play &quot;med.Teijo Kinnunen - Starkelsesirap&quot;, I get a sample bug at the very beginning. The bug does not occur when pressing &quot;X&quot; during playback, only for the 1st play.
[/quote:f60b496227]

What time index would that be? I didn't hear it, though I just woke up.

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From: Melkor
Date: Fri Jun 16 09:07:00 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
Hello SHD,

The time index is exactly &quot;00:00&quot; :-)

When starting the song, you get a &quot;{WHOOP}&quot; that shouldn't be here. If you restart the song with key &quot;X&quot;, the &quot;{WHOOP}&quot; sound isn't there anymore which is correct.

If necessary, I'll provide test sounds (FLAC instead of OGG as I'm talking in parallel with Antti and he have some doubts about OGG being objective about encoded sound)

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From: mld/uade team
Date: Fri Jun 16 09:55:59 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
hi morgoth,

about your tfmx-pro problem. Can't check atm, but it could be a difference in replay between dma and vbi mode of tfmx. This has iirc effect on at least the turrican2 tunes. you can switch the replayer by the following: 

cd to $UADE/players/ENV/EaglePlayer/

and then switch...
DMA off by:
-&gt; echo -en &quot;WT\0\0&quot; &gt; EP-TFMX_Pro.cfg
DMA on by:
-&gt; echo -en &quot;WT\0\1&quot; &gt; EP-TFMX_Pro.cfg

About MED:
(again) can't check (atm) I recently updated the med/octamed replay, not sure if it is only in cvs so far or if it was already in the last stable release...

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From: Melkor
Date: Fri Jun 16 14:53:33 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
Hi MLD !

You're damn right about TFMX :-) Default in stable UADE 2.02 is WT01 which enables DMA mode. I've switched to WT00 and subsong 1 of &quot;Quick &amp; Silva&quot; is now playing as expected !

For Turrican II tune, I haven't noticed any particular change on a quick listen session by switching DMA off.

As of MED, I'll try to find some time this WE to test with the latest CVS and see if the bug have gone.

PS: A little suggestion for uade123 : The option -P (specify player) should search the default Player path is an absolute path isn't given.

uade123 -P TFMX-Pro-THD mdat.onetune

should try to open /usr/share/uade2/players/TFMX-Pro-THD and complain of course if not found. Being able to also specify a full path should of course still be possible :-)