Mplayer/Flash cause Freezes. No Surround Sound. Only DVD Playback is choppy.

[Thetargos]

I don't believe you should get rid of your Opteron, try first the DVD and then the Video card (this is going to sound a bit crazy, but an ATI with support from the OSS radeon driver, R300-400, could just be right one... Is only an idea, though)

[cmichaelt]

Well I think I figured out what the problem is. It's not my hardware per se, but could be seen as the problem I guess. I swapped out the dvd-rom (no change), then i swapped out the nvidia card for another nvidia card (no change). then i tried setting my display to a much lower resolution (640x360 from 1360x768) and that actually resulted in smoother playback, but keeping that resolution is unrealistic.

then i changed the settings on the nvidia control panel. everything was set for fastest performance. so i changed everything to best quality and oddly enough for now dvds play smoothly at 1360x768. seems counter intuitive don't you think?

while changing these settings i kept glxgears open and noticed the fps did not drop at all, is that even possible?

[cmichaelt]

well the majority of my problems have been solved. I did a fresh install on an IDE drive and everything works except for anything involving cds and dvds. I try to play a movie from a dvd and it skips or freezes requiring a hard reset. AVI files off a dvd do the same thing. tried to play music from an audio cd, same thing. tried to transfer files from a cd and a dvd, same thing. i take it my cd/dvd drive just doesn't work in f8, but i did try switching a different dvd/cd drive in and same reults. if anyone might have an idea or solution i'm all ears.

[Cheval]

Originally Posted by cmichaelt

well the majority of my problems have been solved. I did a fresh install on an IDE drive and everything works except for anything involving cds and dvds. I try to play a movie from a dvd and it skips or freezes requiring a hard reset. AVI files off a dvd do the same thing. tried to play music from an audio cd, same thing. tried to transfer files from a cd and a dvd, same thing. i take it my cd/dvd drive just doesn't work in f8, but i did try switching a different dvd/cd drive in and same reults. if anyone might have an idea or solution i'm all ears.

I honestly think something is just screwed up in Fedora. I've had the same problems. Right now I'm ripping a DVD and it's taking 1h 15m! Here's my thread (I've since found out it's ANYTHING to do with the drive...it makes the whole system stutter to the point it's unusable)

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=173920

[cmichaelt]

Yea, i was following another thread and some people are just having bad luck with cd/dvd drives in general. Can't use it to burn cd/dvd, or my case cause system shutdowns. Another chap also said that his cd/dvd drive worked fine in fedora6, but in f7 and f8 his cd/dvd drive has been largely unusable. I've been thing of trying another RHEL based distro, maybe centOS, but not sure if that is as user friendly as fedora.