Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
#1389 closed defect (fixed)
COMI: "Stuttering" voices
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | aquadran |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: SCUMM |
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| Cc: | Game: | Monkey Island 3 |
Description
Ever since the new digital iMUSE, most times when a characer in CMI is speaking the voice "stutters" slightly at the beginning. I don't know quite how to explain it, but it's af it goes quiet for a split second, and then resumes.
Ticket imported from: #877398. Ticket imported from: bugs/1389.
Change History (13)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: SCUMM |
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| Game: | → Monkey Island 3 |
| Owner: | set to |
| Summary: | CMI: "Stuttering" voices → CMI: "Stuttering" voices |
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
Note also this hack: if (_track[l].stream->endOfData()) { mixer_size *= 2; } which I originally put in the old imuse_digital.cpp code as a workaround for the above mentioned bug. Without it, speech would constantly stutter, because it never will catch up with producing enough data for what the mixer wants to consume...
All of this wouldn't be necessary if the code was using a custom AudioStream based on "pulingl". But as long as we "push" the data, we always run the risk of getting an overflow/underflow.
comment:4 by , 21 years ago
| Summary: | CMI: "Stuttering" voices → COMI: "Stuttering" voices |
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comment:5 by , 21 years ago
Verified that this remains with ScummVM 0.6.0pre as of today (2004-02-20 22:40 CET).
comment:7 by , 21 years ago
Pretty much the same for me. I realize now that "stuttering" may have given the wrong impression. It's more like a slight hiccup. The voice starts fine, plays for a fraction of a second. Then the volume either goes way down or maybe the sound pauses completely - it's hard to make out - and then it continues fine again.
It's probably more noticeable to me since I use headphones right now.
comment:8 by , 21 years ago
| Summary: | COMI: "Stuttering" voices → COMI: "Stuttering" voices |
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comment:10 by , 21 years ago
Better... and worse. :-)
To explain, the stutter/hiccup does seem to be gone now. On the other hand, characters often start speaking the next line before quite finishing the current one. I don't remember that happening before.
Of course, that should be filed as a separate bug report.
comment:11 by , 21 years ago
i know about stoping voice too fast, imuse currently stoping sounds imediately as should be(i'm not 100% sure), but maybe it's not related. it of course depend of status of current playing sound but maybe script want play voice too fast.
comment:12 by , 21 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:13 by , 21 years ago
Since the stuttering appears to be gone - or at the very least much improved - and aquadran is aware of the new problem, I'm closing this bug.
I may file a new bug report later. Not tonight, though.
That's probably so because "playInputStream" is being called on an (appendable) stream before the stream contains any data. Result: is the stutter you see.