no sound with many video files

[Kenton Brede]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:56:06PM +0100, baza (baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk) wrote:
> Can anyone help with this. A number of video files play without any 
> sound, WMV, MOV and others cause this problem. Some of the above will 
> play with sound, others have, 'unsupported' audio codecs. It's annoying 
> as they -do- play under windows, but who wants to use that??

If you are using gnome, disabling the sound server sometimes works.
System/Preferences/Sound uncheck "Enable sound server startup"

Just to make sure it isn't running during your test -
$ ps ax|grep esp

Also look under "preferences" for sound driver settings of the various
programs.  Sometimes you have to switch from ALSA to OSS for example.
Kent

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