ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386 LTS multimedia players recently died

[steve]

David Christensen wrote:
> ubuntu-users:
> 
> I have a ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386 machine running LTS.  I've noticed 
> that the video and sound players have recently died.  If I try to play a 
> sound or video file, the players start, do nothing, and then turn gray 
> after 5-10 seconds.  When I try to close them, I get a dialog:
> 
>      The window "<name>" is not responding.
> 
>      Forcing this application to quit will cause you to lose any unsaved
>      changes.
> 
>                                                    Cancel    Force Quit
> 
> I'm not sure exactly when the problems started, but some possibilities 
> come to mind:
> 
> 1.  I installed the Dragon video player, because the default video 
> player didn't work correctly on certain MPEG clips (very jerky playback, 
> large portions skipped).  Dragon was smoother, but the colors were very 
> strange.  When I then tried the default player, the jerkiness was still 
> there, as was the color problem.  So, I rebooted and ignored it for a 
> few days.  Now video playback is dead.
> 
> 2. I uninstalled Dragon, but the problems persist.
> 
> 3.  I've installed updates, when notified that they were available.
> 
> 
> Are there log files I can look at for clues?  Are there any other 
> troubleshooting means?
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David
> 

you may have answered your own question, all the problems started when
you installed dragon player.  so if its removed, a dependency of it may
still be around that was brought in when you installed dragon player?
or you enabled some odd repository recently, ran updates and a newer
version of some codec was installed that isnt compatible with the
video/audio player.  either way, some intervention happened, Im running
up to date lts too, no problems with medibuntu codecs here?








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