video playback issues with kdenlive on Fedora 11 beta

[Christopher Beland]

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-B.

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 23:28 +0100, Andrew Smith wrote:
> On 16/04/09 23:07, Andrew Smith wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm currently testing Fedora 11 beta x86_64.
> >
> > I'm specifically testing kdenlive (non-linear video editor) before 
> > Fedora 11 is released.
> >
> > The first install went great, with kdenlive absolutely stable and the 
> > whole system extremely fast on ext4 (I'm amazed how much faster 
> > everything is to be honest!)
> >
> > All was good for a day or two and then I did a full yum update to the 
> > system.
> >
> > On the next start up of kdenlive any attempt to render any video plays 
> > for a second or two and then freezes.
> > I have directly tested inigo and ffplay and both also freeze up.
> >
> > If I play back the same video file with vlc it plays perfectly.
> >
> > I do not know what specific package versions I was on but I do recall 
> > seeing qt being upgraded in the yum update.
> > Also some xorg and x11 packages.
> >
> > The rest of the GUI in kdenlive is still responsive, so it looks like 
> > it's just the render thread that's frozen.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
> After a bit of testing I've found the problem:
> 
> kernel-2.6.29.1-70.fc11.x86_64 = video freezes up after a few seconds
> 
> kernel-2.6.29.1-68.fc11.x86_64 = OK
> kernel-2.6.29-0.258.2.3.rc8.git2.fc11.x86_64 = OK
> 
> Therefore the solution is just to change grub.conf to boot off 
> kernel-2.6.29.1-68.fc11.x86_64 for now.
> 
> So far running Fedora 11 beta using ext4 is lightning fast and stable - 
> thanks to all the developers it's look great!
> 
> Andrew
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