Audio/Video Problems

[Basil Chupin]

On 03/01/13 23:20, Bill vance wrote:
> Howdy folks;
>
> I'm running a fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04 on an i386 machine, and
> have downloaded most
> of the Medibuntu progs, and I'm still experiencing some wierd
> audio/video problems.
>
> 1.   With both files and DVDs, The videos stay as they first appear,
> and then every second or
>        two, they twitch a little, about a quarter inch or so instead of
> flowing smoothly, as they
>        should.

This first problem seems to me to be the old boggey-man called "the 
U/DMA of the DVD R/W is not configured to its max. speed".

> 2.   I have an Aoundblaster AWE-16 sound card, and an internal, (on
> the motherboard),
>        sound interface that has never been hooked up to anything, and
> never will be.  When I
>        reboot, this little window appears in the lower left corner of
> the screen, announcing that
>        it's switched from the sound card to the motherboard interface,
> and do I want to switch
>        back?

In your BIOS, which one do you have selected as "Enabled"?

If you want to use the Soundblaster then disable the onboard sound chip.


> 3.   Just now when I re-booted, a large window opened up, announcing
> that a long list of
>        sound devices, (inputs, outputs, and etc.), have been removed,
> and do I want kubuntu
>        to forget about them?

I don't remember what K/Ubuntu 10.04 uses but if it has pulseaudio then 
pulse sits on top of alsa and so you must first use alsamixer to 
configure your sound cards channels after which pulseaudio may behave 
itself.

Bear in mind though that pulseaudio would not allow alsamixer to work 
properly and therefore had to be either removed or disabled before 
alsamixer displayed all the channels available for configuring.

And if you still want pulseaudio, after you have configured your 
channels with alsamixer, then install pavucontrol which configures 
pulseaudio.

> 4.   Nothings working with youtube.  How do I get a version of flash
> that works, and what
>        does it need for setups?

That's another story, worthy of an a small book :-) .

Get the above working before worrying about YouTube :-) .

> Thanks in advance for any/all help.

A pleasure - if this has been of help.

BC

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