see the current work of kthakore, there are fresh efforts of re-writing the SDL bindings for Perl. maybee this is a bug? either way go talk to them on irc.perl.org #sdl
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For me it works with SDL_perl v2.2.6 (latest official release from cpan)
You can get it here: http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL_Perl-v2.2.6/
My testfile is 128kbit/s CBR 44kHz stereo. What is yours? (maybe VBR related issues)
I you have further problems/questions you can join us on irc.perl.org channel #sdl or on sdl.perl.org (note that the documentation on our site is for the newer developement version of SDl_Perl)
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