xine sound crippled

[Ken Burtch]

Well, if it's a codec problem, you could try installing older codec 
packages from the mplayer web site, www.mplayerhq.hu.  Maybe it's a bug in 
the newer codecs.  xine / totem both are both front-ends to mplayer, if I 
remember correctly.

Ken B.

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> No one answered.
>
> 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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