SmartOne wrote:Fixed length songs still get cutoff. Let me find you some good examples...
Sonic the Hedgehog: "Title Theme" the final low note should sustain and you should be able to hear the YM2612 fuzzies, but they get cutt-off.
Columns 3: "Victory!" "Mummy's Awakening" "Introductory Theme"
Whoa, listen to "Wild Shellfish," "Yes, Yes!," "The Opening Bell," and "Unfinished Roll" in order (as they are in the M3U.) Winamp skips by them very quickly.
First: This isn't my computer, and thus it has no VGM/VGZ files, nor does it have a recent version of Winamp (or any reasonable plugins). So I haven't tried this out for myself. I'm only posting this because, from what I've seen, this cutoff "error" is often misunderstood. Perhaps this isn't the problem, but it sure sounds like it is.
If I understand the problem correctly (and the fix), then the problem is that in_vgx is single-threaded. That is, it only handles one file at a time. NotsoFatso also suffers from this problem (
). What happens is that a few seconds (you can change it in your output plugin's settings) before the current song ends, Winamp goes to prepare the next song in the playlist. Because in_vgx can't handle more than one file at a time, when Winamp attempts to load a new file, the currently playing one is cut-off so that the new file can be loaded and played.
This problem happens frequently with new plugins. IIRC, It happened with 64th Note, in_cube, and even VGMstream (I haven't gotten a lot of completely new plugins). I assume it's easily fixed, but I have no clue.
As for the usual suggestion of reducing the prebuffer to 0, this, IMO, is a bad idea. I prebuffer my songs because it allows seamless transitions between songs when loading off of slow media (or, in the case of a crappy CPU, it allows the CPU to prepare the audio a little, in the hopes that it won't skip, get scratchy, or stop playback). I have my prebuffer set to 3 seconds (higher than the default, IIRC), and the only time I can recall running into problems is with NotsoFatso, and the Wonderswan plugin (in_wsr). To the best of my recollection, all the other plugins handle the prebuffer situation just fine.
Hopefully the problem is what I understand it to be, and I'm not making a fool of myself. If I'm wrong, and/or I've made a fool of myself, I apologize. As I said, I didn't have the means to test this myself. But if this is the problem, hopefully it can be addressed now that it's been made clear what the issue is (again, assuming I'm right). Mouser X over and out.
