Audio not synced with video on dvd playback

[drberg1000]

In a new, updated, edgy install a movie playing a video with xine-ui provides flawless video however the sound is not synced (lags).

If played in gxine the video flickers every few seconds. When I attempted to watch a full movie the program froze after about 1/2 hour of playback. I've filed this separately, but thought it might be useful for debugging.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

this is most probably a bug in xine-lib. Can you please provide a demo file so that we can examine which demuxer plugin we are actually talking about?

[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 14:22 +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> this is most probably a bug in xine-lib. Can you please provide a demo
> file so that we can examine which demuxer plugin we are actually talking
> about?

I'm not sure what you mean by a demo file. Can you tell me how to go
about generating one?

--Dave

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

I have enough files which don't show this bug. We need a file which does.

[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:55 +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I have enough files which don't show this bug. We need a file which
> does.

I notice the problem with "James and the Giant Peach," "Shrek," "The
Polar Express," and "The Lord of the Rings -- The Two Towers." These
are only the first four disks that I've tried. I expect that I would
have the same trouble with every DVD I put in.

I wouldn't expect you to be able to reproduce it. Is there another way
we can go about troubleshooting? I'm not sure where to begin.

Thanks.

--Dave

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Ah, you didn't say about playing DVDs before. I just tried to reproduce it with my LOTR Two towers dvd, but I cannot see any a/v desyncs.

What audio output do you use? Do you perhaps use the arts or esd output plugin? If yes, try the alsa one.

[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 08:06 +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> What audio output do you use? Do you perhaps use the arts or esd output
> plugin? If yes, try the alsa one.

Tried alsa. Audio still lags.

--Dave

[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

I also have another problem(s) which is/are perhaps related. I thought I'd mention them here before I filed another bug just in case they are.

The system hibernated last night with a dvd paused at the main menu. When I woke the system up this morning I found that xine was frozen. I have this same problem with rhythmbox (see https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/65939 --Can I use html here?)

[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

Could this be an issue with the underlying audio drivers as opposed to the individual packages? If so, which package should the bug be filed with?

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

drberg1000 <email address hidden> writes:

> Could this be an issue with the underlying audio drivers as opposed to
> the individual packages?

I don't think this is very unlikely. Since it seems to happen with every
file on every media player, I'd say it is very likely

> If so, which package should the bug be filed with?

against the Kernel, e.g. linux-source-2.6.17

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[drberg1000 (drberg1000)]

I put in a movie today with my sons account and noticed that some how it auto launched with totem (using totem %m in removable media). I then noticed that I couldn't detect any video lag. I tried another disk (Two Towers) and again I couldn't notice any problems with sync.

Then playing with xine-ui using `xine -f dvd://1` the audio most definately lags behind video.

I don't have gxine installed on this system so I haven't tried to see if its common to xine-lib based programs.

--Dave

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This definately started to happen to xine-ui. I noticed it on a gentoo box
with a newer version of xine at first, but blamed it on a faulty external
audio receiver.

I updated my other htpc to Edgy, and then noticed it happens in xine there
too.

On 11/2/06, drberg1000 <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I put in a movie today with my sons account and noticed that some how it
> auto launched with totem (using totem %m in removable media). I then
> noticed that I couldn't detect any video lag. I tried another disk (Two
> Towers) and again I couldn't notice any problems with sync.
>
> Then playing with xine-ui using `xine -f dvd://1` the audio most
> definately lags behind video.
>
> I don't have gxine installed on this system so I haven't tried to see if
> its common to xine-lib based programs.
>
> --Dave
>
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[Nicklas Svanteson (nicklas-teknister)]

This seem to be a bug in xinelib 1.1.2 when playing DVD's (only?).

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30795777&forum_id=3438

I have tried compiling xinelib 1.1.1 in edgy and that did solve the problem. However I got other issues, probably due to build errors.

Is it possible to distribute 1.1.1 as an update to 1.1.2 in edgy until this is solved upstream?

Thanks/Nicklas

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This happens with both totem-xine, xine-ui, and kaffeine for me on DVD playback. It can be corrected by manually setting the digital AV sync in xine-ui, but still thats not a fix.

Downgrading to an older xine-lib fixes the problems, and they dont just sit in xine-ui.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

This is debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403102, which has 3 duplicats up to now. (for some reason, lp doesn't let me set a bugwatch).

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

This has been fixed in xine-lib-1.1.4, which has entered feisty. Please reopen if you still encounter it.