Ubuntu :: DVD's Stall When Try To Play Them
Sep 3, 2010
I like to watch DVD's from netflix etc on my laptop. I've tried VLC, Mplayer, Movie Player and Xine and all of them do the same thing more or less. The movie plays but it pauses or lags every 3-6 minutes or so, then resumes. VLC seems to work the best, but it does it too and it's to the point where it is irritating to watch a movie on it. You watch 10 minutes, then a freeze, VLC says "buffer.." and runs from 0-100% in a little progress bar, the DVD drive spins up again furiously then the movie plays again. Over and over through the whole movie.
It does it in EVERY DVD I have tried. I've tried everything from completely uninstalling the movie players, reinstalling them, tweaking every setting I can find per instructions I've found on other forums. I even went as far as going into my laptops BIOS to set the CD drive speed to HIGH.
Is this just how it is watching a DVD on Ubuntu or what? I really do NOT want to resort to reinstalling Windows 7 (ugh) but this is unacceptable. I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to get acceptable, reliable performance out of one of these DVD apps. Not sure what info will be relevant but, the machine is a brand new Lenovo T510 thinkpad, Core i5 2.4 ghz, 4 gb RAM, Nvidia graphics. Running Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit.
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Feb 6, 2010
i have searched the forum but can't find the solution for stalling network in the middle of something. i have to restart the computer. i cannot rely ubuntu for 24 hours non-stop small server. the stalling problem occurs when I start pulling/downloading via samba or sftp (smb:// or sftp://) from another computers/device (like wdtv). when i check the lenovo, all internet connecetion is dead. ifconfig shows the ip but it just dead.
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Nov 22, 2010
Trying to debug a network issue - we have problems with scp transfers to a remote host intermittently stalling. I believe it may have something to do with incorrect handling of sack / dsack TCP options. Looking at netstat -s, during a (successful) scp transfer the TCPSACKDiscard and TCPDSACKIgnoredNoUndo counters increase rapidly. This is on the client initiating the transfer to the remote server. This doesn't seem normal, but I'm having difficulty finding an explanation of what exactly these counters signify. The tcp_sack / tcp_dsack / tcp_fack options are enabled in the kernel on both hosts.
How do I debug this further? Are the counters a symptom of a known problem? It's kind of hard to google this, all I get is unrelated netstat output which happens to include 1 or 2 discarded SACKs, not tens of thousands like I am seeing. I can make tcpdumps on the client (unfortunately not the server), but what should I look for?
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Mar 24, 2010
this is scary, bunch of vmware-user-wra processes stall cpu 100%!! What's going on? Server has just been restarted! Bere I restarted, the root started all this vmware-user-wra!! I was configuring vncserver! After restart, it's started by user roo300 which I have used to login via SecureShell!
Code:
top - 20:20:29 up 4 min, 85 users, load average: 76.57, 35.14, 13.60
Tasks: 629 total, 90 running, 539 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 98.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3873304k total, 369500k used, 3503804k free, 50492k buffers
[code]....
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Aug 30, 2010
I have a relatively new server (Ubuntu Server 10.04.1) with a "/backup" partition on top of LVM on top of an MD raid 1.Everything generally works, except that it freezes during the fsck phase of bootup, with no errors. I've given it 20 minutes or so. If I press 's' to skip an unavailable mount (documented here), it reports that /backup could not be mounted.here are no LVM related messages in /var/log/messages, syslog, or dmesg.
When I try to mount /backup manually, it reports that the device (/dev/vg0/store) does not exist. Apparently the volume group was never activated, though all documentation seems to claim it should happen automatically at boot. When I run "vgchange vg0 -a y", it activates the volume group with no issue, and then I can mount /backup./etc/lvm/lvm.conf is unchanged from the defaults. I've seen posts mentioning the existence of a /etc/udev/rules.d/85-lvm2.rules , but no such file exists on my server, and I'm not sure how I would go about creating it manually, or forcing udev to create one.There are some open bugs describing similar problems, but surely it doesn't happen to everyone or there'd be many more[URL]
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Feb 12, 2011
I tried the Googles praised Chromium browser and while it seems to render pages fast enough and has a really nice interface, I experienced an annoying responsiveness problem. Opening a link in a background tab seems to stall the browser almost completely until the page has been loaded and rendered. For example scrolling the page that I'm currently viewing becomes almost impossible. The same actually applies to the current tab too, of course. If the page in the tab hasn't been loaded completely, scrolling is really really clumsy. I tried disabling the installed extensions and also tried experimenting with some command line options, but no help there.
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Feb 7, 2011
I'm surfing along just fine when I select some link in my browser.The status line reports "... waiting for ..." and the browser seems to stall for a long time (minutes). Often, but not every time, I can select the STOP toolbar icon and reload the page. This time things work normally.
I have a similar but different malfunction running Evolution email connected to my hosted IMAP server. I select a message and see "... formatting ..." and then Evolution seems to stall for a long time (minutes). Rarely the stop-reload actions help reading email. Instead,all Evolution windows go dark grey and the entire desktop stalls.[Analysis -- It has the feel of a "network" issue provoking issues within Evolution itself rather than an Evolution-only malfunction.]
Watching the running system with 'htop' and similar, I do not see where some other application or service is sucking all of the available CPU time or such. [Analysis -- It has the feel that either the browser message or the email message were sent into limbo without reaching their intended destination. Stop-reload sends the bits to the right places and so I get results.]
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Mar 10, 2010
After many days of trying to tweak Ubuntu 9.10 desktop i386. This subject will focus on my dvd drive. ...Here is what I have done, but I'm not sure what I did or still need to do, or to do different. ...
Basically the problem is, I can't play store bought DVDs, but I can play my copies of them.
When using MDPlayer that I added to Ubuntu, I can play the copies of my store bought DVDs, but not the originals. However, when using Ubuntu 9.10's movie player, it wont do anything and I'll have to do a force quit to close it.
I learned that this may because there is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution, as I'm sure you already knew.
...Yet, Most people have worked around these issues.
I came across the Medibuntu site: [url]
Running the Terminal, I added the bash command that adds Medibuntu's repositiry to Ubuntu. It also adds Medibuntu's GPG key to the keyring.
(The sudo wget - etc etc etc --quiet update)
Then I jumped down to the... "This command should be run in the Terminal, after adding the repository:" ...And did that. (sudo sed -e 's/ etc etc etc /medibuntu.list)
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Oct 15, 2010
i just installed 10.10 on my girls laptop (Acer Aspire 5735z) hoping it would fix the old problem i had with playing real dvd's. it didnt. it keeps saying "Could not read from Resource". when i try with VLC is say "Could not read from file". but if i put in a burned movie, it plays fine. i checked and it has libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4, and libdvdread4 installed. i get the same problems with my laptop (toshiba portege m400 tablet) which runs fedora 13.
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Feb 28, 2010
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I've rebooted, tried all sorts of tinkering, it loads the applet (I can see that Flash is loading OK because other things work, and right clicking on the applet gives the Flash menu)
However, clicking the play button does nothing.
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May 1, 2011
I've had this problem on a few flash games (a couple of EA's sports management games on Facebook, and the Pokemon Dream World.) When I first use them everything's fine, but as I continue coming back to them, they seem to run a little slower each time. Ultimately in the case of the former two it got so bad that they were unusual.
Why is this happening? If they were slow from the start I could understood, but what could be making them go wrong on repeated plays?
I'm on 32 bit Kubuntu Lucid, firefox is my browser, and it's the official flash plugin.
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Mar 10, 2015
I have tried to play mp3 files with sox play.
The result I get is:
play FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'
I have installed all libsox packages I could find, including libsox-fmt-mp3 and libmad0.
sox -h though, gives me:
AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au avi avr awb cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 ffmpeg flac fssd gsm gsrt hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu m4a m4b maud mp4 mpg nist ogg prc raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sds sf sl sln smp snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub ul uw vms voc vorbis vox wav wavpcm wmv wv wve xa
PLAYLIST FORMATS: m3u pls
AUDIO DEVICE DRIVERS: alsa ao oss ossdsp pulseaudio
(no mp3 mentioned there).
The reason I try to play mp3 files with sox is that I wanted to play a playlist with different formats and feed it to ices2 through a pipe, ie :
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FAIL formats: no handler for file extension `mp3'
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Jan 21, 2010
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Is this because it is in Live Mode and installing 10.04 to my hard drive will fix it or does Ubuntu no longer support audio files other then ogg and other open source audio / video file formats due to copyright problems?
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I have installed rpmfusion and livna repository.
I have installed following packages:
When I try to play video with totem, it doesn't output any error, but just doesn't play video.
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vlc:
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