xine sound crippled

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Ken, I know that website.

Is it not somewhat ridiculous that sound and video on Linux depend on a 
single semi-legal website in Hungary?

Hungary is a wonderful country. I have been there in 1978. ;)

zb.

Ken Burtch wrote:
> 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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