Sound in VLC keeps cutting out

[IrrelevantElephant]

Hi,

Recently started using openSUSE and everything's going swimmingly apart from this. Whenever I try to play a movie or piece of music in VLC the sound only plays for around a second every four seconds or so.

Is it possibly a driver issue, or a problem with dependencies?

Thanks guys.

[caf4926]

Did you follow this: Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

Follow it carefully.

Personally I prefer smplayer over vlc.

[IrrelevantElephant]

I'd just finished following that guide before I posted. Didn't seem to make any difference.

SMplayer does work quite nicely but it would be nice to get VLC working.

Thanks for the quick reply!

[caf4926]

Please post the result of this from a terminal

zypper lr -d

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by caf4926

Please post the result of this from a terminal

zypper lr -d

In addition to providing the output of the command that caf4926 gave you, please also provide the output of:

rpm --query --all 'libav*' 'libpostproc*' 'libswscale*' '*xine*' '*gst*' '*layer*' '*vlc*' | grep -v avahi | sort

... also, do you have beagle enabled? It can really "suck" your CPU while it categorizes your hard drive. I recommend you remove beagle.

... also, if this is more choppy than cutting out, you could apply a pulse audio fix in case it is a pulse audio problem. Note the approach here in step-7:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - step-7

[IrrelevantElephant]

for zypper lr -d:

# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
--+-----------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | Packman | Packman | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /packman/suse/11.1 |
2 | Videolan_VLC | Videolan VLC | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ |
3 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss |
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | No | Yes | 100 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 20 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1

for rpm --query --all 'libav*' 'libpostproc*' 'libswscale*' '*xine*' '*gst*' '*layer*' '*vlc*' | grep -v avahi | sort:

banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer-1.4.3-1.2.1
flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.3
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.8-999.pm.1001.3
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.23-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-lang-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.8-6.6.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang-0.10.8-6.6.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.2
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.2
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.10-3.22.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.10-3.22.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-999.pm.1000.7
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-lang-0.10.12-999.pm.1000.7
gstreamer-0_10-schroedinger-1.0.5-42.pm.48.2
gstreamer-0_10-utils-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.3
gstreamer-utils-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.3
libavc1394-0-0.5.3-129.3
libavcodec52-0.5.0.20191-1.1
libavformat52-0.5.0.20191-1.1
libavutil50-0.5.0.20191-1.1
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.2
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.24-999.pm.1000.3
libpostproc51-0.5.0.20191-1.1
libswscale0-0.5.0.20191-1.1
libvlc2-1.0.2-2.3
libvlccore2-1.0.2-2.3
libxine1-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.7
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.7
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.7
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.7
MPlayer-1.0rc2_r29116-2.pm.29.8
pullin-flash-player-11.1-1.1
smplayer-0.6.8-0.pm.2.2
vlc-1.0.2-2.3
vlc-noX-1.0.2-2.3
vlc-qt-1.0.2-2.3
xinetd-2.3.14-129.28

Thanks guys!

[oldcpu]

caf4926 asked this:

Originally Posted by caf4926

Did you follow this: Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Follow it carefully.

To which you replied this:

Originally Posted by IrrelevantElephant

I'd just finished following that guide before I posted. Didn't seem to make any difference.

Last I read that guide, it stated you MUST disable videolan (or do I have my guides mixes up). But when I look at this:

Originally Posted by IrrelevantElephant

for zypper lr -d:

2 | Videolan_VLC | Videolan VLC | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/ |

clearly videlan is enabled which means the advice in the link referenced in caf4926's post was ignored.

There is a possibility that might be your problem. It will not be until I get home later and am able to check the rpm versions that I will be able to acertain that is the case, but it looks so to me. Clearly your vlc version is NOT a packman version, and you have mixed up packman and videolan versions likely causing all sorts of problems.

[IrrelevantElephant]

After following the guide, VLC did not appear to be installed, I added it from the VLC repository without any dependency warnings.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by IrrelevantElephant

After following the guide, VLC did not appear to be installed, I added it from the VLC repository without any dependency warnings.

The guide warns to use videolan for only libdvdcss.

There are no dependency warnings. This is a community hiccup with different packagers deciding NOT to work to have compatibility with each other's packages, and it is not within the "power" of this forum to do anything about but provide advice to warn users. If users ignore the warning then they will likely experience the consequences.

The videolan packaged vlc is not compatible with packman packaged codecs nor other packman packaged apps.

IMHO you should replace ALL videolan packaged applications with Packman packaged applications.

[oldcpu]

... also, do not forget to check into this:

Originally Posted by oldcpu

... also, do you have beagle enabled? It can really "suck" your CPU while it categorizes your hard drive. I recommend you remove beagle.

... also, if this is more choppy than cutting out, you could apply a pulse audio fix in case it is a pulse audio problem. Note the approach here in step-7:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE - step-7