so mpg123 -v pathtoyour.mp3 There will be a counter telling you how many frames are being played. mpg also offers the option to play you music slower.
man mpg123
But if the problem occurs across several players the issue is likely with your alsa setup or oss if that what your using.
On 4/16/06,
Rémi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> I'm having difficulty getting multimedia clips to play at the proper speed.
> Almost everything I play, across several players and file types, including
> RealPlayer, wants to play too fast. Video goes quickly and voices all sound
> like The Chipmunks. None of the player utilities seem to have a speed
> control so I don't know how to manage the problem. My laptop, running
> Ubunto, doesn't have the problem. Windows doesn't have the problem,
> although on my desktop system playing these clips inside a guest Windows OS
> in VMware has the same problems that VMware always seems to have with audio
> - lots of breaks in the audio (and video). I'd really like to to solve this
> problem on the Linux side.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I should go about correcting this?
>
Could you provide more info about your hardware? mplayer/vlc/xine/...
versions and so on ?
Rémi Cardona
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