So I played some videos in youtube and video media player. A little thing that disturb me is a skippy/choppy sound! How to remove it? I already installed the codec, flash player, pavucontrol, and alsa. I’m using opensuse 13.2
It is kind of hard to answer that.
Do you have the packman repository enabled? Which phonon backend are you using? Try switching from gstreamer to vlc. You could also think about installing Chromium with pepper-flash but you say that the problem exists with all sound output and not just flash?
It might also be a hardware issue. Have you tried to configure your sound card in yast? It might also be the case that some cables aren’t connected properly.
If one has poor bandwidth, videos streamed from youtube can be bad …
Is this ONLY videos from the Internet streamed to a browser or mediaplayer (such as vlc) that are choppy ? or does this also happen with videos that are already saved on your hard drive ?
- It’s happened both when i played it on youtube and vlc.
- I already use vlc phonon
- I already enabled the packman repos
I am just guessing here.
Maybe some process is causing high system load causing the sound to stutter. Does it sound like the sound stops for a short moment? Have a look hat Ksys to see wether system load is high.
I guess I did not phrase my question correctly.
Are these videos already ON your hard drive you are trying to play ? … or are they videos that you are streaming from the web ?
Just saying ‘vlc’ does not answer my question as one can play videos streaming from the web with vlc, and for all I can tell that (steaming from the web with vlc) is what you may be doing.
Just a guess, but maybe try a different audio “output module”? Using xine in the past, I once had to specify ALSA instead of “Auto”. Maybe this will work in VLC…
I think it’s happened both when i played it on my hard drive and on web.
If you have one downloaded, run it and report back. If not, then download one and play it off the disk, then report back.
It helps if we know for certain, and “I think” is not certain.
Correction:
I mean i’m really sure it’s happened both. I already tested it.
Any idea or solution please?
On 16/11/14 05:06, mki wrote:
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https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/160-openSUSE-13-2-Multimedia-Guide
Might help. Be sure you switch to Packman as shown
Can you confirm your sound has been good with earlier releases or
different distros?
Without having one’s hands on your specific PC hardware, its difficult to do more than speculate.
You could try some of the suggestions from this arch linux wiki where some may also be applicable to openSUSE : PulseAudio - ArchWiki
The sound is still the same from the earlier release of opensuse. I don’t know about the another distro.
In that case tell us about your hardware Processor video sound card/chip etc
You might run top in a console to see if you have any process taking a lot of CPU cycles
had the same problem since 11.3, solution was to disable pulse audio, then the sound works without chopping. Hope my solution helps.
Thanks Casperius. It really works. I think the pulse audio that makes sound messy
Sorry for long responses. Because i was focusing on my semester exam last week.
I’m glad that it helped