[ale] video running too fast

[Evan Lasky]

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

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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