Douglas Royds wrote:
It's a Totem problem! MPlayer is playing the same files fine. Haven't
had any success on Google or ubuntuforums.org yet, though.
Carl Cerecke wrote:
After upgrading to Dapper on my desktop, my sound was completely
hosed. So bad that the login sound kept repeating like a scratched
record (remember them?) and hung the login process. I had to
Ctrl-Alt-F1 and kill esd before I could Alt-F7 and login.
Worked around it by booting with the previous kernel.
I think ALSA and OSS were fighting each other, but never worked out
exactly what was wrong.
On 18/08/06, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before upgrading to Ubuntu Dapper, Totem was able to play every video
file that I had thrown at it. I'm now getting badly munged sound on .avi
files, notably those from our own digital camera.
The audio codec that it's using is Linear PCM (not exactly challenging)
at 88kbps. There seems to be something wrong here.
Audio playback is fine from .mpg (a Sony digital camera) using MPEG
audio layer 2 codec, and audio playback is fine from DVD.
More reportage from the trenches:
The only Dapper upgrade that I have heard of succeeding 100% (tho I
don't wander far from the LUG) is this from which I write. - Why did it?:
Eager to get Dapper for 1June release date, tho unprepared to risk
trashing my 5.10 work installation, I did a new 5.10 default install
into a spare partition, updated that to the max at which 6.06-LTS gets
offered, then accepted that. (Still running sweet.) Perhaps these are
the (only?) conditions under which the upgrade is guaranteed - no system
tweaks.
In glitching upgrades elsewhere, it seems Ubuntu has matched or
surpassed a 'big two' distro for this service readiness - Suse. It's a
major challenge for every GNU/Linux distro.
As far as I know, Gentoo through its BSD-like ports system has far and
away the most perfected upgrade functionality. RedHat/Fedora? - anyone
care to expand on this theme, for the benefit of newcomers.
Personally, I'd place live upgrading facility somewhere behind
promptness and ease by which patches and packages get distributed, in
selecting my distro.
Btw the 'advanced HP laptop' install problems I reported were due to a
hardware fault in the power supply & battery area, & not the software.
.02c
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