[SOLVED] Media Freezes Computer

[RealG187]

When ever I open Totem player is freezes my computer. Whether I open audio or video it does it, VLC did it for video, not sure about audio.

Rhythmbox doesn't do it.

What happens it the audio keeps playing but the video is just black, I can move my cursor but not click.

I think this happened when I played the "experience ubuntu.ogg" video file as a test too, that was before I installed the extra plugins.

[Jengajam2]

Make sure you have gstreamer and the "good" plugin set reinstalled via synaptic, then try it again.

[RealG187]

I use "apt-get install whatever"

I typed in "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" to originally install the plugins.

[Hydrid]

Something is wrong with your video codecs unistall them and install them again,do the same for your VGA.

[RealG187]

would I go



sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

[RealG187]

Okay VLC doesn't do it for audio.

So:

Player - Audio Freezes - Video Freezes
VLC - No - Yes
Totem - Yes - Yes
Rhythmxbox - No - N/A

[RealG187]

I reinstalled the plugins and in the process had to uninstall all my media players except VLC. I reinstalled totem and it still does it...

[RealG187]

It does this for my webcam too. Could it be something with my video card? (I will find out what it is when I boot back into Windows)

UPDATE: It's Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

[Coder543]

Make sure you are using the latest ubuntu.
If you are, you might attempt to reinstall it, that has worked wonders for me in my installing ubuntu on various hardware setups. Sometimes your install really is messed up. If you don't want to do that, then don't do it. That is just what has worked for me.

[handydan918]

It does this for my webcam too. Could it be something with my video card? (I will find out what it is when I boot back into Windows)

UPDATE: It's Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Yeah, sometimes cutting edge hardware (and drivers) cause issues. Maybe you coould post the output of
lspciso we can see what the system is seeing the hardware as.

[RealG187]

mpg@MIKED6:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Cantiga Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Cantiga Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Cantiga Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
mpg@MIKED6:~$

[Tomatz]

I have fixed the issue for someone here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011168&page=3

[rampageoberon]

I'm getting the very same problem. It is quite temperamental, videos seem to work at times and at times they don't. I'll try the steps given in the linked post and see if it helps.

On the topic I posted I got the following advice (not sure if it works as yet but my system hasn't crashed in one attempt)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=807443

[RealG187]

I uprgaded to 8.10 and it worked, 8.10 probably uses X11 by default.