Video and Audio problems

Hrududu

I'm currently running Snow Leopard, and haven't had any issues until some weird stuff started happening this evening. Just wondered if anyone recognised the issue.

I was playing Youtube videos, all was grand. When I went to play another one the picture was jumpy, as if it was playing it too fast. There was also no audio. I thought it might be an issue with Youtube. I checked a different streaming video site and had the same problem. So I thought it might be my connection. I opened VLC and played a video from my HD. The picture was fine, but again no audio. So I opened iTunes and tried to play a song. The play button turned into the pause button but the song wouldn't play.

I checked for software updates and installed them. When it rebooted it made a strange noise. Then it displayed the normal white startup screen only this time it had a progress bar. Once this was done it restarted again and made another weird noise. It then started up seemingly fine.

Fine people of Boards. WTF?

EDIT: Looks like the noise and progress bar might have been caused by the software update. I just checked the log and the firmware was updated. Still not sure if thats the actual answer or not. Or why the video and audio went funny.

spannerotoole

Have you tried a proper power cycle. (not just a reboot.) EMS may need to reprobe your hardware.