For some time now sometimes when I play an audio or video file with SMPlayer or VLC the file will play through at high speed. E.G. A 2 hour film with flash through in about 20 seconds and a audio track will play through in about 3 seconds.
I’ve reinstalled them both but it made no difference. Any ideas on what may be causing this?
I think you have been through this thread, but here it is again. Make sure you have it all setup correctly.
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Yes, I’ve been through that. I’ve reinstalled all codecs and went through the 10 steps and everything verified ok.
It’s strange because the file will start to play fine and then after 15seconds or a minute later it will just speed up through the rest of it.
Are you using desktop effects?
Sometimes this happen to me when compositing is enabled
does mplayer play it correctly from command line? If so, either there’s a misconfiguration in smplayer or as mentioned it’s due to composite being enabled (though I never had any problems with that)
Yes desktop effects are enabled. I haven’t tried playing it from the command line. I’ll try that first and see how it what happens.
I have come across this a long time ago. I’m sure it’s a codec issue.
Please Post terminal output of
zypper lr --details
Results:
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI
--+-----------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | KDE42_Community | KDE42 Community | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42
2 | KDE:42 | KDE:42 | No | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/
3 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | openSUSE 11.1-0 | No | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/
7 | repo_1 | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.1/
I see you don’t have kde4 repos enabled, not related to your issue though I think. But you might want to enable them to get the latest improvements in kde4.
But. If you open Yast Software Management
Filter by repo and select Packman
Scroll right thru - Are there red or blue packages?
If Yes, I would go to the Package menu and do update all unconditionally
I disabled the KDE repos as I though they may conflict with the main SuSE repos. I’ll re-enable tham again if you think it’s worth doing.
OK, there are about a dozen blue items and about 4-6 red items. None really have anything to do with codecs or multimedia apps except an update for a newer version of Kaffeine (for KDE3 - no KDE4 version seems to be available).
Does the unconditional update also affect the red items, i.e. downgrades the installed version?
Does the unconditional update also affect the red items, i.e. downgrades the installed version?
Yes.
The red’s will roll back
You may have to accept vendor change to Packman
OK, I just applied the unconditional update and will see if that helps.
PS, why are the Packman repos preferred over the SuSE ones? I would have thought the SuSE ones would be the latest and greatest.
For multi-media, suse packages are broken for restricted formats (legal matter). So Packman is the place.