Hi Frank, there are multiple questions here:

Getting audio out of VLC is probably a good place to start.  Have you tried
using ALSA in VLC instead of Jack?  You might have to close and restart VLC
in between changes too.

As far as tweaking avi playback, that is a rats nest like the wireless stack
in linux.  The video card, driver in use and version of gstreamer plugins
and of course a preference setting somewhere could prevent smooth playback.
My test in these situations pulling my hair out with Ubuntu are blue-ray
matroska files at fullscreen.  They are higher density and put more stain on
all the system, but ideally should playback fine with perfect audio and
video sync.  Its actually not that easy though.  In my experience
ironically, Totem is the last choice I would make for a player in favor of
Mplayer which has plenty of settings like VLC that you can address, or screw
things up with ;)

Getting DVDs to playback perfectly without dropouts can be hard as well on
any linux system.  ON my macbook pro things tend to be like glass and with
issues, beachball and die.

After rotating through the various players I found Mplayer to have the most
correspondence between making a setting, and seeing an expected result.
Slightly better than VLC, though that could change easily.

I see Matthias just responded to this - maybe he has something more specific
to offer.  In Mplayer I might increase the cache...though without a video
card with dedicated memory you might not ever get it perfect if your
resolution is high and you view at fullscreen.

Cheers,

jonathan adams leonard

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Frank Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> HI All
>  I seem to find totem will not play AVI's correctly ( very jerky playback)
> VLC plays fine but I get no sound ( won't play with jack or without)
>
> This is not so much a problem as I use an RME card and Vlc cannot find the
> outputs itself.
>
> I note that VLC shows connection to jack as an output option but when
> running jack
> I get no VLC showing to connect the outputs.
>
> How do I change settings in Totem there seems no way to change anything in
> Totem itself.
>
> Cheers
> Bob
>
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