[ale] video running too fast

[arxaaron]

On 2011/05/28, at 23:21 , Evan Lasky wrote:

> Aaron, I am using Totem movie player 3.30.2.
> I use the same software regardless of video or DVD.
> The box has been running fine for about a year.
> I have to work tomorrow, but I will make it a point to
> try running a live cd and see what happens. Thanks, Evan


Given that the system has been running OK previously,
you should probably try Jim Kinney's suggestion of removing
pulseaudio first.   It makes as much sense as my clock guess,
since all digital media formats require playback software to
arbitrate the relative playback speeds of the audio and video
subsystems in order to attempt to maintain A/V sync.  If the
audio subsystem is not providing reliable status or clock data
feedback then the video playback could run rampant.

Unlike every analog recording and delivery format I ever
worked with, there is not a mechanism in ANY of the digital
formats for insuring that audio and video are properly
delivered in sync with one another.  Audio and video can
fall out of sync at any time during any playback pass, even
on the best of high end production systems.  It's nothing
short of insane, but not surprising given that all the common
digital codecs and wrappers have come out the greed driven
proprietary corporate model for anti-standardization

peace
aaron


>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:06 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011/05/28, at 21:59 , Evan Lasky wrote:
> > I am running a Fedora 14 box with a phenon 2 processor,
> > 4 GB of ram and on board video. Any video I try to watch
> > plays at 90mph with no sound and looks like it stops to
> > buffer occasionally. It doesn't matter if I am watching a
> > DVD or a youtube video. Any ideas? Thanks, Evan
>
> My first guess is that the hardware system is not generating
> a reference clock signal expected by the media software.
>
> What is your media player?
>
> Same software for video and DVD playback?
>
> Is this something that just came up on a previously working
> box or is this the first time you've been trying to play video
> on this install?
>
> A quick test to narrow down to a software or hardware
> issue would be to boot to a Live CD of a different distro
> and try to play video with it.  See if a different distro /
> media player software exhibits the same problem.
>
> HTH!
> peace
> aaron
>
>
> > P.S. I have very little Linux experience.
>
> But I have a lot of computer media experience, so it
> should all work out!  :-)
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