Matthew Saltzman wrote:
It turns out that mplayer itself can do the conversion. The .wav file sounds fine played back from the hard disk, but I have problems burning to a CD. The burn seems to be fine. The CD is detected as an audio CD and the track starts playing, but all I hear is beeps and bleeps. I tried both normal and byte-swapped burns using xcdroast.
I had this exact same problem and tried all of these things too. You are totally on the right track. mplayer is working fine, the problem is with the kernel == kernel-smp-2.6.8-1.521. As I was burning the audio CD I was having the massive memory consumption problems like some other people have reported here. The other day someone posted three different links to bugzilla, I can't remember what the subject of the post was.
I upgraded from this kernel to one from rawhide. Even booting an earlier kernel may fix the problem.
