F11 Sound Crackling in Media Players

[kevross_33]

Hey. When I installed fedora 11 I had bad sound which crackled and crashed. I followed this guide -http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225660 - which fixed my issues in videos playing on the web and in VLC. However; in the last few days sound has bugun crackling again in VLC while playing videos (web is fine). All updates have been applied and I am running 32 bit Fedora 11.

Also totem when playing video crashes, freezes, crackles etc while playing videos though playing sound files is fine with no issues. Any ideas how I might solve this and get my sound while playing videos back to how it used to be?

Thanks for any help given

[Gödel]

VLC has a crappy default audio driver for pulse-audio, in Fedora you can switch to Simple DirectMedia Layer for the audio output in Tools->Preferences->Audio to fix it (audio still goes via pulse audio, but SDL does it properly). In Ubuntu the VLC player dosen't even have a pulse-audio output, which is telling.

Don't know about Totem, I always use something decent like mplayer/smplayer or xine/kaffeine for video and have rarely had problems.

[mrshahi]

Yes I have the same problem . .... I had tried all stuff but i didn't get any solution ..if anyone can do anything I 'll very helpful to him.

[kevross_33]

OK, I fixed my VLC issues. Where in the guide it says to change no to yes for this :realtime-scheduling = yes, I changed it back to no and it started working fine again. Strange because the other week that worked fine and fixed my issues.

Still jumping, freezing and stuff in totem when playing video files.

[kevross_33]

Ok, it seemed clear the other day but now it seems to have a slight cracking again. I am just going to play with the settings till I get the right balance

[mrshahi]

Ok , but my problem is that , VLC is not producing sound in WMV type of media in FC11. while in case of fc10 it was working fine...
I think there is problem of fc11....
If anyone has any idea please let me kno