mp3 overread, skip observed with mp3 files from and upwards(of these bitrates): 24kHz 128k sample provided 24kHz at 160k as it produces an audible skip like effect at about 6 sec. (encoded with lame 3.97) ffmpeg -i 24.160.mp3 out24.wav FFmpeg version SVN-r14231, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --ena ble-gpl --enable-liba52 --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enab le-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-lib xvid --enable-libx264 --disable-ffserver --disable-ffplay --enable-avisynth --en able-small --enable-pthreads --extra-ldflags=-static --extra-cflags=-mtune=penti um4 -mfpmath=sse -msse -fno-strict-aliasing libavutil version: 49.7.0 libavcodec version: 51.60.0 libavformat version: 52.17.0 libavdevice version: 52.0.0 built on Jul 15 2008 04:17:40, gcc: 4.3.1 Input #0, mp3, from '24.160.mp3': Duration: 00:00:07.53, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 160 kb/s Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 24000 Hz, stereo, 160 kb/s Output #0, wav, to 'out24.wav': Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 24000 Hz, stereo, 768 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 Press [q] to stop encoding overread, skip -6 enddists: -5 -5 overread, skip -7 enddists: -2 -2 overread, skip -6 enddists: -2 -2 overread, skip -7 enddists: -5 -5 overread, skip -10 enddists: -9 -9 overread, skip -7 enddists: -2 -2 overread, skip -7 enddists: -6 -6 overread, skip -7 enddists: -4 -4 bits_left=-2 overread, skip -7 enddists: -3 -3 size= 709kB time=7.56 bitrate= 768.0kbits/s video:0kB audio:709kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.006063% ty tripp