On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:16:50PM -0500, Mark Wallace wrote: > What do you think that it is, Mike? >
Either buggy audio drivers (fairly common) or Ubuntu pulling weird/broken media libraries (I've seen their license-dodging stuff not pull in the right versions of things several times). Much more likely that it is a sound driver problem, as someone else already suggested. -m > > > Mike Kershaw wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:59:24PM -0500, Mark Wallace wrote: >>> The problem might be codecs. Many of the codecs that we are using are >>> reverse engineered, and some are better than others. Ubuntu lists codecs >>> as good, bad and ugly for this reason (besides their might being a >>> violation of copyright laws in the case of some of the windows codecs.) >>> >>> Try installing different codecs. that can get compicated in that you >>> might install the right one but your system might still be using the >>> wrong one that is giving you the trouble. Be carefull uninstalling >>> codecs. Be sure that you remember which ones that you installed so that >>> you can put them back in. >> MP3 codecs are not reverse engineered. The codec is very well known and >> published. Licensing issues are something else entirely. >> -m >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium >> Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails >> Feb 4 - TBD > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails > Feb 4 - TBD > -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "Remember the book store down the road? That then became a book and coffee shop? Now it's a 24-hour just-coffee shop. It's like evolution, only, without the getting better."
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