[sarith]

Hey all,

This happened completely randomly and is now not going away. All my videos are play at about 4 times regular speed, and there's no sound. It's like they're all stuck in fast-forward (though not explicitly showing XBMC is actually fast-forwarding through them). The UI seems to be very quick and responsive (perhaps too quick?).

I saw a few other posts about this sort of problem but I don't think it's exactly the same as mine.

Here are the specs for my motherboard (I use the on-board soundcard).
Video card
TV

I'm running XBMC on OpenSuSE 11.1 through an install from the package on the Packman repository.

I've tried to uninstall XBMC (by deleting it from the Yast package manager) and then re-install it (check it off to download + install in the pack manager). When it re-installed, all my settings (including hardware settings) were the same as before -- which obviously means I didn't *actually* uninstall it the first time. Sooo, any ideas on how to completely remove this badboy from my system? I want to try this first because honestly XBMC was running PERFECTLY for the 2 days since I installed it -- this problem happened very suddenly.

Any ideas

[proctor]

XBMC uses the audio track to sync the video, so that will happen when the sound isn't working in linux. Get your soundcard working and xbmc will be back to normal.

[drivesoslow]

This is a common issue, I myself had the same problem, a quick search provided these answers:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38061
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40813
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=39788
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38076

[sarith]

Thanks a lot, you guys. Absolutely correct. Once I got my sound working correctly again, everything was fine. For anyone who might need the info, here's what I had to do:

Turns out my sound was working fine if I logged in as root. That made me think it was a permissions problem (which it was). Just add your user to "sys", "audio", (or in my case) "root" group in /etc/group.

Also, make sure you:

Code:

sudo chmod 777 /dev/snd/* /dev/audio /dev/dsp /dev/mixer

This may not be the most *secure* way of going about this, but it works.