@ivom66 - I am also a ubuntu user who is giving suse a try. It's a shame about these audio problems because I never had them in ubuntu. Despite these I am really liking suse so far so I'm reluctant to throw in the towel, although a desktop without sound is not of great use to me.
@olcpu
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I never use totom, so I can't give advise, ... only ask questions that YOU should be asking. Do you have w32codec-all installed?
I wish I knew more of the kinds of questions I should be asking to get this working but unfortunately Im still a bit of a newb
However - I did not have w32codec-all installed previously but do now, although it made no difference. I was hoping that was why I was having trouble playing mp3's in Banshee but it must be the same issue thats preventing totem and possible mplayer.
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I have my mplayer set to xv and alsa. I use smplayer as a front end to mplayer. And I never run 3D desktop effects. But if you are using 3D desktop effects you may have to set this to x11.
I think I am just running mplayer (if starting from command line I type 'gmplayer'). I do have compiz running, but if i start mplayer from cl and open an .avi with audio set to ALSA, the error msgs seem to be audio related not video related. I can post some output if your interested.
I think for the moment I will try removing alsa-plugins-pulse as suggested in the last few posts and see if that works. Otherwise, I will probably do a fresh install (thank God I installed /home on a separate partition this time
), and then carefully reinstall codecs and software and see if there is a particular package that causes these sound crashes (assuming I get the same problem).
I'll update further if I have any success.