Internet Video plays INCREDIBLY too fast

**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 ..

**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

Originally Posted by joeforker

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.