The same thing happens in xine. In Totem, sometimes the video gets behind the audio, so it pauses, then plays fast to catch up. No doubt my machine (an EEE box) is too slow to keep up, but in totem it's generally watchable and the degradation is fairly graceful. Gxine seems to react to dropped frames by actively speeding things up, making it worse. Rhythmbox often has similar problems when playing music, suddenly stopping and maybe picking up the thread 30 seconds later.
I can't discern any particular pattern to when it happens, but when it does, all videos (and, with Rhythmbox, music) seem to be bad for a while. It doesn't seem to be due to load, I have a status monitor applet and it doesn't show anything in particular happening. (However, when audio or video is playing, the network usage goes to 100%, which I guess is a separate bug.) Ubuntu 9.04, gxine 0.5.903-4ubuntu1, xine-ui 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2.1~lenny2ubuntu1, libxine1 1.1.16.3-0. I didn't assign the bug to a package because the bug reporting page doesn't have an option to do so. If it had, I would have assigned it to gxine, because of the utter impossibility of navigating my way through the maze of audio/video libraries, frameworks, front-ends, codecs and servers with which Ubuntu is encrusted. The problem could be anywhere and no diagnostic information bubbles up into user-space. I have 11 packages installed with "xine" in the name alone. How am I supposed to know which package is broken? -- gxine skips, plays too fast, freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424571 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
