On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:09 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:15:06 -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? >> >> Try lower-level tools like "aplay" to play a test WAV file. >> >> $ rpm -qf $(which aplay) >> alsa-utils-1.0.16-3.fc8 >> >> Disable pulseaudio if it is running (the process has the same name), then >> try again. If everything is still 3-4x faster, boot into the previous >> kernel version. That way you may be able to find out that something >> in ALSA in the kernel causes these problems. > > Previous poster's idea concerning CPU speed sounds like it has much > merit. That would be about all that it could be?? Is this a notebook? Not a notebook. A Dell 1.6ghz desktop with 1 gig ram, 32 bit system. > For the life of me I cannot think of anything that would do this across > the board of all the various "players" of sound or video. I could see > something mis-configured in Xine causing the problem, but mplayer > wouldn't duplicate that with a different playback scheme of keyboard > bindings and setup files. > > If the OP has more than one kernel installed, maybe try using the older one? I have had a few kernel upgrades since and I think my config keeps only 3 kernels around. So, I ain't rolling back a kernel at this stage. (It started a few weeks ago.) >In my years, I've never heard of this one. And, is this just > happening to a few homebrew audio/video files or all audio/video files? > Like it you went to youtube, are their files playing at a higher than > normal speed? There's gotta be something somewhere to use to narrow down > the problem. You would hope, that is. :) Ric ALL audio video files. Except that the video is ONLY 1.8x-2.5x increase and audio is 2x-4x. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
