[Bug 739800] New: Static when playing audio at high bitrate/sample rate

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739800
  GStreamer | don't know | 1.4.3

           Summary: Static when playing audio at high bitrate/sample rate
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 1.4.3
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: don't know
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: brandonjsnider at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


If you try to play audio from a wav or flac at a bitrate higher than 16, and a
sample rate higher than 44.1khz, there will be a bit of ticking static at the
beginning. This doesn't occur with ordinary 16/44 files.

This is pretty easy to reproduce. You can use something like Sushi or
Gnome-Music or the player of your choice that uses Gstreamer.  Or just playbin.
If you don't have a flac or wav at the bitrate/sample rate I'm talking about,
you can make one easily.

You can get a wav if you don't have one using a variety of methods, possibly
flac at the cli, or audacity or whatever you want. Just use sox on the wav:

$ sox song.wav -b 24 -r 96k song_upsampled.wav

Just try to play it and each time it will start with a bit of static. I'm not
sure if this is confined to the sampling rate, or the bitrate, or is both
combined. You can tweak the sox command to narrow it down if it's an issue. I
think it's the sampling rate though.

I'm using the latest Gstreamer in Debian Jessie (unstable)--1.4.3.

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