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I'm having problems playing cd's and DVD's in SUSe 9.1 . When playing a cd the sound disappears after 10to 20 seconds, sometimes it jumps a track and sometimes it starts playing a little later in the song. Don't know if this is a problem with the player or the soundcard, but I'm guessing the soundcard. It is properly installed and is working fine. Soundbuffer is set to max, and it plays mp3's and divx movies alright. I've tried no dma, dma and dma/16, with no different result. I'm having no trouble accessing data cd's.
Can anyone give me a hint on what is going on?
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
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there could be more to this problem than i'm guessing, but a while back i had a similar problem and running a cd-rom cleaner did the trick. it came as a kit with a disk and instructions for about 5 $ us. solved my problems.
good luck.
Similarly, does this behavior appear with all audio CD's, or just one or two in particular? It could be that they have some surface dust/grime that is interfering with playback. -- J.W.
Use compressed air in the CD-ROM drive instead of the cleaning disc.
Like what J.W. said the disc might be dirty. Clean it but go perpendicular of the tracks. In simpler terms from the inside of the disc to the outside disc. Do not clean in circles.
The sound card has nothing to do with this problem. It just recieves through the audio CD cable (that thin grey wire).
yes, there must have been a problem with individual cd's. I just had the bad luck of trying several with problems, therefore thinking ut was a general fault somewhere.
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