On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 20:15 -0400, Nat Gross wrote: > Running Fedora 8 32 bit on an Intel 1.6ghz. (This box has run Fedora > since FC Test 3.) (Latest yum updates.) > About 2 weeks ago, my sound/video system started playing back > everything at double-triple speed! > Actually video seems like double speed but audio is like 3-4x! > Over the time in years from FC3, 4, 5, 6, 8, there have been various > multimedia engines installed on this box. > I have no idea where to start! > Any idea please? Shoot it, to put it out of it's misery, Nat. I also have no idea where to start, if it's -all- playback apps. If it's just one or two that are related, there must be something configured very wrongly in their setup. I know xine and others can fast speed forward through key bindings ...single key presses. Like the right arrow key, it speeds things up in Xine. Have you installed a new keyboard, new mouse or some Croatian version of ASCII? I know of nothing in KDE or Gnome to have that effect, system wide. New scroll mouse? Try turning the scroll down or up to see if it has effect? Slap some keys randomly? (This could get really good!) <chuckles> Call 911 to have an ambulance come and use the "Jaws of Life" on the cabinet to let the demon out? Reverse the speakers so it would run slower? If everything starts running backwards, you're getting closer. Adjust your tin foil, too. If worse comes to worse, get a copy of "What the "BLEEP!" do we know" and, through the power of your "intentionality", either bend the computer to your will by your influence on the electrons on the system buss, or speed yourself up 2X. Then, either way, you will become one with the computer and be in sync so that the audio/video which now runs within the influence of your intentionality. Or, the computer's ...whichever one of you wins out. Maybe the rest of us have already become merged (noticing nothing abnormal) and you're just the last affected by the "intentionality" of Fedora and, most likely, KDE4 or PulseAudio. Or ...maybe you slowed down. I'm adding more tin-foil before it happens to me. More Human than Hu-man. Computer Zombie Ric http://youtube.com/watch?v=_AaiBfLn5VE p/s your problem is so weird that I hope you don't mind me having some fun with it. It's late, Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
