Re: playback speed?

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 04:00 pm, you wrote:
> Tue Jan 06 2004, Pete Yadlowsky wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:09 pm, you wrote:
> > > This sounds strange. Is it just the video playing double speed but the
> > > audio is at normal speed?
> >
> > When it happens, video and audio both play at double speed.
>
> Ok, this make sense in a way. We sync to the audio so if it plays
> faster then the video will too.

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> What audio card do you have and which one of alsa and oss are you using?

The audio is integrated on the motherboard. It's an nvidia/ac_97. As for the 
audio software, I'm not sure. OSS, I suppose, as that's the usual default. 
I'm installing ALSA now anyway.

> To find out if this is the problem you can edit the oglerc file and
> change the <speakers> section to just contain:
>       <channel_config>
>         <chtype>Left</chtype>
>         <chtype>Right</chtype>
>       </channel_config>
> This will force ogle to only open 2channels on the audio card.
> If the dvd plays in normal speed now we know where the problem is.

Well, that fixed it (still running the original OSS at the moment). In fact, 
the entire <speakers> section in oglerc was commented out. I have tested two 
DVDs that were known to play at double speed, and they are now playing 
normally.


-- 
Pete Yadlowsky
ITC Unix Systems Support
University of Virginia