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@lemmy.mlhttps://www.gog.com/en/news/capcom_and_gog_join_forces_to_release_the_original_resident_evil_trilogy
Capcom and GOG join forces to release the original Resident Evil™ trilogy!
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/02/14/contribution-sessions-begin-tomorrow/
The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of vo...
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/02/14/contribution-sessions-begin-tomorrow/
The openSUSE community is pleased to announce that it will have short sessions aimed at encouraging people on how to contribute to the project. A group of vo...
https://www.gog.com/en/news/new_year_sale_2024_grab_the_giveaway_and_check_out_more_than_4600_deals_up_to_90
New Year Sale 2024 – grab the GIVEAWAY and check out more than 4600 deals up to -90%
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/01/13/call-for-tegra-u-boot-testers/
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/01/13/call-for-tegra-u-boot-testers/
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/01/13/call-for-tegra-u-boot-testers/
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Last month I upgraded my computer with new parts. I kept my old DVD drive that I mainly use to rip CDs. I have now however run into an issue that has stumped me. When I tried to rip some used CDs I bought the resulting FLACs had a terrible crackle, making them unlistenable. So I started looking into the issue and tried different ripping programs and CD players. Trying to play a CD also produces a crackle with most players. Some players can't even see my CD drive. I have installed rippers and players from distro repos and flatpaks and it makes no difference. I have even tried booting into live environments of different distros and the problem persists.
Now, the real kicker for me is that VLC (from flathub or distro repos) plays and rips the CDs with no issues. VLC is not a great tool for my purposes however. EDIT: Kaffeine flatpak also plays CDs without issue.
There are no error messages (aside from some players which can't even see the drive) to go off of. Google has failed me. CD error correction makes no difference, just makes ripping terribly slow. Some attempts to fiddle with pipewire also produced no result. Encoders work fine when encoding from different sources, so they are probably not the problem, and the same issue happens when playing the CDs.
On my old setup this worked fine. I can also watch DVDs without trouble.
Does anyone have any idea where to go from here? If it wasn't for VLC I'd think this is a hardware issue, but now I've no real idea. I'm currently on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
EDIT: Thanks to everyone who took their time to comment and make suggestions. I have been unable to make any headway into solving this. My uneducated guess is that this is some weird edge interaction between the optical drive, motherboard, and libcdio/cdparanoia. Purely speculating, this may be an issue with buffering/caching. It seems to me that applications that rely on libvlc do not have this issue. I tried using a portable USB DVD drive and it worked fine, as at least there was no crackle. I really don't know how to proceed from here, so I'll probably just use a USB drive for now. A commenter suggested getting a separate SATA card to bypass the SATA ports on the motherboard, and that sounds plausible, but I haven't tried it. Any explanations are welcome!
I ran updates this morning on my PinePhone running PostmarketOS and it seems the phone can no longer suspend correctly. Once a minute or so the screen flashes to the lock screen with the message "automatic suspend" and then goes black again, but doesn't seem to actually suspend. The blue notification light keeps blinking. This means the battery drains faster. Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas what is going on? Booting doesn't solve the issue. I'm using Phosh.
EDIT: More information and a workaround at: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2185