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BennyWhatever
April 19th, 2009, 06:09 PM
This might be just an easy setting I can't find, but for some reason all the high quality streamed videos (namely appleTV previews) are playing twice as fast as they're supposed to. Lower quality videos have no problem.

I'm running it on an amd64, and it's Jaunty, so I wouldn't be surprised if that has something to do with it. Also, I have a GeForce 8600GT, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I've changed my resolutions around and everything... still no worky.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated
marcel
April 20th, 2009, 07:47 AM
we have not tested on a 64 bit and jaunty yet but post your boxee logs (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=377)..
BennyWhatever
April 20th, 2009, 11:05 AM
Havin trouble making the log...
First, the directory to put the advancedsettings.xml is not what it says on that link.
Also, I have absolutely no idea how to make an xml file. is there a command in the terminal I can put in?

Thanks a bunch. The quality of the videos are awesome... they're just moving REALLY fast.

I did get the "Internet Not Recognized" problem fixed though (I had posted a thread about it earlier).
joeforker
April 20th, 2009, 04:11 PM
I have the same problem on a new EEE PC running 32-bit Jaunty. Video plays incredibly too fast without audio, then it teases me with normal speed audible playback, then plays back fast again. Tried uninstalling and fiddling with PulseAudio but it didn't make a difference.
BennyWhatever
April 20th, 2009, 04:33 PM
This is interesting...
When I'm watching one of those super-fast vids... if I go into the Video Calibration, and set the bottom middle line up really high, it slows it down. Not completely, and still no sound, but I just found that out and found it really odd.
dojaan
April 21st, 2009, 10:06 AM
I do believe this may have something to do with Analogue/Digital Sound.. I had the exact same problem when I ran the Apple Trailers for the first time, they ran at twice the speed and with no sound. I use a Optical S/PDIF cable, and had Analogue Sound activated in the settings, after i changed this to Digital Sound the Trailers worked fine! Maybe just a coincidence?
joeforker
April 21st, 2009, 10:12 AM
Maybe boxee is using the sound card for timing without realizing the timer is much faster than expected (e.g. 96000 kHz instead of 44.1) and/or exposing bugs in ALSA & PulseAudio.
BennyWhatever
April 21st, 2009, 10:42 AM
Maybe boxee is using the sound card for timing without realizing the timer is much faster than expected (e.g. 96000 kHz instead of 44.1) and/or exposing bugs in ALSA & PulseAudio.

Hmmm, that actually sounds like a plausible reason....
I switched to digital, but it did nothing. Maybe if I tried a different sound card...

I'll try and let you know.
joeforker
April 22nd, 2009, 07:58 AM
I solved my problem and now I can watch those Apple trailers...

ldd /opt/boxee/Boxee showed Boxee was linked with PulseAudio. I downloaded the compile scripts from another thread in this forum, removed the PulseAudio libraries from my system, and recompiled for a completely PulseAudio-free Boxee. The new Boxee plays video at the correct rate.
marcel
April 22nd, 2009, 08:23 AM
I used this site to remove pulse audio http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-remove-pulse-audio-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html
BennyWhatever
April 22nd, 2009, 10:47 AM
I solved my problem and now I can watch those Apple trailers...

ldd /opt/boxee/Boxee showed Boxee was linked with PulseAudio. I downloaded the compile scripts from another thread in this forum, removed the PulseAudio libraries from my system, and recompiled for a completely PulseAudio-free Boxee. The new Boxee plays video at the correct rate.

WORKED!!!! Yay!!!
At first, there was no audio, but a few tweaks fixed that.
Thanks MUCHO!

Now to just get the hulu plugin to work... downloaded the new one, and I can view everything, but none of it plays... oh well.
Gagzilla
April 28th, 2009, 04:04 PM
FWIW the version I downloaded from the instructions on http://app.boxee.tv/download for Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) 0.9.11.5777 didn't have any pulseaudio dependencies- as confirmed by ldd /opt/boxee/Boxee | grep pulse However I did have pulseaudio running.

Once I stopped it (with pulseaudio --kill) I was able to see the video run at correct speed and audio worked fine as well.

I guess next up would be figuring out how to make pulseaudio not start automatically on boot- I suspect it's the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio file. Trying to remove pulseaudio may not be a good idea as it seems to be a dependency for ubuntu-desktop.