Audio/Video Problems

Mehmet Dilmac cilazma at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 19:16:27 UTC 2013


2013/1/3 Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at gmail.com>

>
> On 3 Jan 2013, at 12:20, 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.
>
> What are you using to play them back? Does sound flow smoothly or is that
> also jumpy?
> Have you tried other players - VLC is usually the best, or SMPlayer?
> It sounds like a sync problem - the player is trying to sync the audio
> with the video and isn't getting the clock information it needs. This could
> be a video driver issue or it could be related to your sound card issue.
> Trying VLC or SMPlayer will determine whether it is a Phonon issue or not.
> I suspect it probably is.
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> This appears to be normal behaviour when you have multiple sound cards.
> When I say 'normal' I mean 'that's the way it (mis)behaves for everybody'.
> If you can disable the onboard sound card in the BIOS that is the best way
> to avoid problems like this until they fix Phonon (or perhaps it's pulse
> audio) so it works properly. What might be happening is that it is trying
> to play the login sound but is doing so before some part of the audio
> system is ready, so it doesn't detect the sound blaster and thinks it has
> gone away. Try disabling the login sound so the system has more time to
> ready itself before Phonon tries to do anything. I had the same issues when
> I had two sound cards installed.
>
> > 4.   Nothings working with youtube.  How do I get a version of flash
> > that works, and what
> >      does it need for setups?
>
> There appear to be two ways to install flash. There is a package in the
> 'partner' repository called 'adobe-flashplugin' and one in 'multiverse'
> called 'flashplugin-installer'. I'm using the second one and it's working
> fine for me, although they both seem to install the same version. Shouldn't
> need anything for setup. It does struggle on i386 systems though, these
> days the 64 bit version actually seems to work a lot better. You don't say
> which browser you're using either, if it's Rekonq then you should install a
> better one - either Chromium of Firefox.
>
> Mark
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any/all help.
> >
> > Bill
> >
>

hi
use saund card driver on ndiswrapper


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