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I know about this, that's not the problem.

The problem was that I had turned the splash screen off and when I thought it had hanged it was actually waiting for me to press some button to ignore...

Nope. I commented out all entries in the fstab except the root/home partition and it booted just fine. If I uncomment a non-present drive it fails to boot again.

Boot script output is attached

Ok so I found the problem - Lucid apparently fails to boot if any entries in the fstab do not mount/exist.

This is an absolutely ridiculous bug and I have no idea how it made it into an LTS...

So I unplugged one of my 1.5TB storage drives to lend the cable to a friend, assuming ubuntu would be able to boot fine without it. It doesn't apparently, it gets to a certain point then says a lot...

Hey, just follow the instructions in the original post. You don't need to rely on the graphical way for that to work.

What is the output of pulseaudio -vv?

An update: Since I wrote this guide, vdpau has proven itself to be a mature, reliable and practical way of playing high definition videos on linux machines.

By far the easiest way to get pain free...

Try running your media player like this:

pasuspender $MEDIA_PLAYER_APP

This will suspend pulseaudio while the app is running and allow it full control of the sound card.

It's free software, if you don't like it, don't use it.

If you want to file a bug, better tell the projectm developers rather than on here where nobody is actually involved with the project.

If you are willing to "beta test" the new method, then follow these steps:

You need to add this ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~themuso/+archive/ppa

And upgrade to the latest pulseaudio/alsa....

Check the first post again guys, a solution is on it's way, I need to be sure it works ok for me before I write it up though. Give it a week or so, it should be up here.

Sam

Are you definately using xv? If compiz is enabled, are you definately using direct rendering (not indirect rendering)?

Sam

Seeing as this is an experimental branch of mplayer, it is likely to be fairly buggy and sometimes even fail to compile.

SOME1:

It looks as though the site is just down temporarily.

Sam

Added method for updating to latest source via git.

Thanks pascal16, correction has been made.

Hi all

If you are like me, you may have tried to play some 720p or 1080p high definition H264 film clips on your computer and it has stuttered or lagged behind audio, making it unwatchable.
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As far as I can tell, alsa thinks you only have two channels...

I know it sounds stupid, are you sure you actually HAVE a surround sound card?

Sam

It should say a lot more than this?

try killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio -vv

Sam

You'd better ask on the nvidia forums then, nvnews.net is the place to go, in the linux support forum.

Make sure you follow the sticky for reporting a vdpau bug and someone will help you sort out...

Projectm from sv has been broken for ages. Next time a proper release is made I'll write a guide up here on how to install it, until then you're best off sticking with one of the older releases.
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What card/driver version do you have? Does -vo vdpau work if you don't specify any extra -vc options?

Does it work with -vo xv and without the vdpau options?

Sam

Not much anyone can help you with unless you post the mplayer output here.

Sam

This is because windows is crap and doesn't support zeroconf. Blame microsoft for this and ask them to pretty please implement zeroconf for windows.

Sam

Sounds like a dns issue. Make sure your router is handing out a valid dns server address to clients.

Sam