upgrade FC4->FC5; AV Goodbye

[David Becker]

I used to have fc4 running with superb dvd playback, superb avi playback and superb audio.

I upgraded to FC5; Now

- mplayer plays back too fast (and reports my system is too slow)
- xmms plays horribly fast
- xawtv crashes on startup (segmentation fault)
- dvd playback (using mplayer) is way too slow

And there's absolutely no audio (to be heard).

As usual, lspci reports my soundblaster live as a vga compatbile device. Gnome doesn't detect soundcard, but it seems as if ALSA has covered the card.

I remember having audio issues when upgrading to FC4. I've fiddled with aumix, alsamixer, gnome volume control, yet no audio and botched video playback (either way too fast (avi), or way too slow (dvd)).

Could this have something to do with samplerates? mplayer plays back 48000hz audio, while I seem to recall that it used resample to 44100.

Why does this always occur just before I go out and rent a dvd?

Thanks

David

[marinaccio]

I had a similar problem with mplayer, I upgraded from fc4>fc5, and mplayer stopped working all together. The fix for my problem was installing a missing library... libslang-utf8.so.1 Now everything is back to good. I hope this might help someone in the same shoes as I was in. As to the above problem, I am no expert. What I have learned is to be prepared to read through some manuals, post to this forum, and that google is a big help. Thanks to everyone that posts to this forum, It is a big help and time saver

[stunter]

Be happy that's all it is. I tried to do an upgrade from FC4 to FC5. I couldn't get any video at all. I have an NVidia 6800GT card and selected that. I got a lot of nothing. Screen garbage. I aborted the upgrade. I suspect I'll have to save my /home file and configuration settings and just wipe the drive and install FC5 and spend many hours getting the system back to usable. Sigh...

[linmix]

When I updated from fc3>fc4 everything related to audio/video went haywire.
My fix wasn't an elegant one: I uninstalled everything related and reinstalled the new versions.
Keep in mind that a distro upgrade is a pretty agressive step on an FC system. Many libs compilers etc are changed and as a result the dependencies that were available when you did the original install may have changed or disappeared altogether. Anything that is an add-on to the original system as distributed on the cds/dvd may cause you problems.