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On 07/05/12 19:11, Alan Lumb wrote: > Hi Paul, > > My problem started when running Ubuntu 11.10. and has continued after installing > 12.04. It is often difficult to be precise about when something first happens as > may not show up till a prog is used. I used to play videos and download radio but > can't now. Did you upgrade in place, or perform a fresh install? Always check the available resources under /var/log when things are going wrong, without concrete information you're going to get nowhere. > 11.10 Ubuntu used Banshee as default. Tracks saved to Banshee some time ago can > still be played. As far as I can tell you cannot burn CDs from Banshee Banshee has mercifully been deprecated as the default player in 12.04 as it has mono dependencies. Rhythmbox also sucks. Save yourself a lot of pain and use clementine instead: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install clementine > I downloaded VLC Media Player. I suspect this began the problem. There being a > conflict between multiple versions of Flash? The screen tells me it is not > installed but when I check it is and up to date. First Iost video then, some time, > later lost sound eg couldn't listen to the radio live. I rather doubt that this is the problem at all (it definitely isn't). You are obviously having other problems, most likely codec related. Do you have all the relevant parts of the gstreamer framework installed? ffmpeg? etc? For flash nuke all previous instances and reinstall from scratch with: sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin* && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer If you've updated in place, you will have a lot of potentially orphaned and/or useless, duplicated or otherwise uneccessary crap lying around on disk so hunt them out with these two commands: dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall deborphan --guess-all As long as you don't see anything listed you definitely want to keep, actually perform removal/purge with these two commands: deborphan --guess-all | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs sudo dpkg -P > > Now Rhythmbox is the default media player, with no choice appearing in the > dialogue box. You can always reinstall any other media players, including banshee or clementine, via the usual methods of course. Rhythmbox is really a rather poor default though. > > When I download some speech with musical intro RB plays three notes stops and > closes down! Could be one of countless different problems, read and then post your logs if you can't make sense of them. Pulseaudio issue? Network streaming issue? Who knows without more info... > When I look at Additional Drivers- none are listed You may not need any of course: what do "lspci -vvv" and "lshw" tell you? Don't forget that almost any ubuntu machine won't suffer from having the following by default: sudo apt-get install linux-firmware* linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms This will frequently automatically take care of some unusual hardware cases for you (admittedly mostly network related, so unlikely to help you in this specific instance). > I live in Teignmouth > > Regards > Alan > Come back with some more specific information, particularly anything from your logs, and it shouldn't be hard to figure out what's wrong. Regards, Mat -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq