Video When Watching Movies Is Grainy?

English Multimedia
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Ok… I will say that I am fairly new to Linux and I have tried a few different distro’s, but I am for the most part liking Suse 11.1
and I won’t complain here, but…

Can someone tell me why when playing a video that it looks grainy?

Or when watching hulu why it looks grainy?

I am using a brand new Toshiba E105 laptop and have high speed cable 1.5 mb.(no problem on Vista)

Also, I have noticed that my wifi connection will be four bars for about 15 minutes or so and then it starts dropping and going up and down. But even when it is solid four bars, the video is still grainy.

I will say that I have not only found this problem in Suse, but in all other distro’s I’ve tried so far.

Your help will be appreciated! :\

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presume you have done all this
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums

What about your graphics device. What is it and have you installed any drivers that you know of?

Forget the cable/wireless. Unlikely to be that.

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graphics is built in Intel.

I did try installing libdvd.* files and gstreamer ogm tools (I think).

Why is the wifi connection in linux so unstable??

In Vista, I get a solid three bars and very rarely does it move.

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Incorrect forum,moved to multimedia

Andy

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Try not to worry about the wifi for now, if your feed was poor it would NOT result in grainy picture, but rather the feed would pause play to cache.

Go thru that guide I posted - Carefully!

Also open a terminal and become su and then do:

lspci -v

post result

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Good luck in sorting your multimedia. You are in good in hands with caf4926.

Reference your comment on your wifi

You probably need to start a separate thread on this. Lumping it in with multimedia may not get you the attention on this that you want, so I recommend you start a separate thread.

But a general comment on wifi with my very limited experience. We have 3 PCs at home that use wifi, and in ALL 3 cases, the Linux wifi works better than either winXP wifi or Vista wifi. Why is that? Possibly because I researched the hardware compatibility with Linux before procuring the hardware, and confirmed good EASY Linux compatibility BEFORE I purchased. In our case at home:

  • DLink DWL520 (w/B3 chipset) PCI card with atheros chipset - both Link madwifi (openSUSE-10.1/10.3) and also Linux opensource ath5k driver (openSUSE-11.1) works better than the WinXP drivers on this PCI card;
  • Fujtisu-Simens Lapop Amilo M7400 - rather ancient laptop with an Intel wireless - works significantly better in Linux than with the WinXP driver
  • Dell Studio 15 laptop - Intel 5300 AGN wireless. Functionaly was initially very good with Vista and then stopped. Completely. My wife spent hours on this and she has not been able to get it functioning with Vista, and so instead she runs winXP in a Virtual Box under openSUSE-11.1 Linux, where the wireless works ok (but not great) under Linux. But ok in Linux is better than none in Vista.

so IMHO based on that limited experience, it really depends on one’s hardware and the quality of the driver, as to whether wireless works better or worse under Linux.

Good luck in the new thread that you start.