Mint 13 MATE: Sound problem w/ maximised youtube window
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:13 am
Hello everyone!
I am fairly new to Linux (I tried openSuSe two weeks ago) and have installed Linux Mint 13 two days ago. First of all I have to say that, especially in comparison to SuSe, Mint and the MATE desktop are great! I like the balance between being accessible, functional and not too demanding with regard to hardware. I still encouter some bugs, like the one which displays "could not write bytes: broken pipe" on shutdown, but overall everything is running more or less smoothly and I enjoy the adventure that is getting to know Linux (I come from a Windows 7 background). So to all those Mint developers out there: I really do like your work! Thank you!
But I digress and should get to the point. My problem is the following: When I play youtube videos, usually everything works perfectly, both the video and the sound quality. This changes when I maximise the youtube window to fullscreen, in which case the sound starts stuttering. It sounds a bit like when you turn up the volume too high on a cheap soundsystem, creating some sort of crackling noise (for lack of a better way of describing it). However, the volume does not actually change, just the sound quality. I have searched the forum for similar cases, but the threads I found mostly deal with cases in which sound does not work at all, as opposed to it working rather selectively.
My computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad T60. It has a dualboot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13 (MATE), both of which are 32-bit. The System Information application gives me the following:
-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 3096MB (625MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 13 Maya
-Display-
Resolution : 1680x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV515
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter : USB-Audio - Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000
Audio Adapter : ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
I should maybe clarify that every other application involving sound works perfectly fine (as far as I had the time to test it), so the only issue is with youtube in fullscreen. I am not sure what the problem is. I admit that I am not too savvy with regard to hardware matters and I have not been able to figure out yet which driver might work for the sound system of this notebook (if indeed it is a driver issue). Furthermore, since I do not really know what the source of the problem is, I am aware that the information given above might not encompass everything needed to solve this "riddle". So please do not hesitate to ask for further specifications.
Many thanks in advance!
I am fairly new to Linux (I tried openSuSe two weeks ago) and have installed Linux Mint 13 two days ago. First of all I have to say that, especially in comparison to SuSe, Mint and the MATE desktop are great! I like the balance between being accessible, functional and not too demanding with regard to hardware. I still encouter some bugs, like the one which displays "could not write bytes: broken pipe" on shutdown, but overall everything is running more or less smoothly and I enjoy the adventure that is getting to know Linux (I come from a Windows 7 background). So to all those Mint developers out there: I really do like your work! Thank you!
But I digress and should get to the point. My problem is the following: When I play youtube videos, usually everything works perfectly, both the video and the sound quality. This changes when I maximise the youtube window to fullscreen, in which case the sound starts stuttering. It sounds a bit like when you turn up the volume too high on a cheap soundsystem, creating some sort of crackling noise (for lack of a better way of describing it). However, the volume does not actually change, just the sound quality. I have searched the forum for similar cases, but the threads I found mostly deal with cases in which sound does not work at all, as opposed to it working rather selectively.
My computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad T60. It has a dualboot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13 (MATE), both of which are 32-bit. The System Information application gives me the following:
-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 3096MB (625MB used)
Operating System : Linux Mint 13 Maya
-Display-
Resolution : 1680x1050 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV515
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter : USB-Audio - Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000
Audio Adapter : ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
I should maybe clarify that every other application involving sound works perfectly fine (as far as I had the time to test it), so the only issue is with youtube in fullscreen. I am not sure what the problem is. I admit that I am not too savvy with regard to hardware matters and I have not been able to figure out yet which driver might work for the sound system of this notebook (if indeed it is a driver issue). Furthermore, since I do not really know what the source of the problem is, I am aware that the information given above might not encompass everything needed to solve this "riddle". So please do not hesitate to ask for further specifications.
Many thanks in advance!