xine sound crippled

[Zbigniew Koziol]

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Without sound and video working properly forget about linux as a desktop.

zb.

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Some here are good in these multimedia things. I am not.
>
> I like watching movies from Google Movies. I intercept them and save 
> from web browser cache and then try to use xine to play.
>
> Movies are displayed properly when viewed in web browser window 
> (flash), with sound played properly also.
>
> However, some movies, while video plays properly, have problem with 
> sound, when I try to play later a copy from a stored file.
>
> This is definitely a problem of xine and/or audio codecs.
>
> Why I know this? Because I installed a newest version of xine  and 
> after that  some movies  that played sound properly with older version 
> had problem to play properly sound with newer version. While some 
> movies that could not play the sound properly with older version, now 
> do not play well with newer version.
>
> The sound does exist but it is so crippled that it is very hard to 
> understand it.
>
> All this is very frustrating. How to approach the problem?
>
> zb.
>
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