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A/V playback stuttery and getting worse - how to troubleshoot?

  • 01-01-2011 10:56PM
    #1
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've been having a problem with intermittent stuttering in video and audio playback since upgrading to Maverick (it also happened when I briefly installed Lucid). It started out as teh odd skip every 20 minutes or so but now it can happen 5 or 6 times in 10 minutes when watching a film.

    I've tried:

    reformatting and clean installing
    using a half-dozen players
    installing every codec I could think of (only after the normal ones wouldn't help)
    diangosing my 3 hard drives (the problem occurs on them all and they're not in a RAID setup)
    changing then changing back my video drivers
    disabling pulseaudio and ubuntuone-sync (these were not installed in my previous, working setup)
    looking at every relevant log file (mplayer, smplayer, demsg...) I know of

    I'm out of ideas. Going back to Jaunty is the only solution I'm pretty sure will work but it's not exactly ideal. It will be a few months at least before I'm able to install a completely new distro.


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