[ale] video running too fast

[Evan Lasky]

Thanks guys, it's working!!! Removing pulseaudio resolved the issue.* I
appreciate your help.  Evan*

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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