Rockbox

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  • Task Type Bugs
  • Category Codecs
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  • Operating System SW-codec
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  • Reported Version Release 3.10
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by lovasoa - 2011-12-25
Last edited by dreamlayers - 2011-12-28

FS#12485 - Seeking in .ape file doesn't work

The .ape file I join make rockbox produce a horrible noise (like random audio) when seeking inside it. The original file was very large, so I created this one with:
dd if=original.ape of=test.ape bs=512 count=1000
So the produced file may not be correct, but it plays correctly in rockbox, and reproduces the bug, so I join it…

   test.ape (500 KiB)

I see that ape.c does not check for end of file. It does not check the return value of ci→seek_buffer() or ci→request_buffer(), and it doesn’t check bytesleft from ci→request_buffer(). This explains what happens when seeking past end of file in test.ape. It can even lead to crashes, eg.
at apps/codecs/demac/libdemac/entropy.c:176
176 rc.buffer = (rc.buffer « 8) | read_byte();

I also see that even seeks to valid positions within test.ape lead to noise. These lines in codec_run() change the return value of ape_calc_seekpos() and cause the problem:
/* APE’s bytestream is weird… */
firstbyte = 3 - (newfilepos & 3);
newfilepos &= ~3;
For example, frame 0 can be decoded with firstbyte = 3 (as set before the start of playback) and newfilepos = 2570 (that equals ci→curpos at start of playback and ape_ctx→seektable[0]). However, seeking works on other APE files, so more investigation is needed.

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