I have this issue on a fresh install of 12.10 AMD 64. Sound was bad from VLC launch.
Like others, this choppiness would eventually go away on it own (see #59) and come back some time later. I could also fix the problem with a pause and then unpause. Moving the mouse (#55) also "seemed" to fix the problem quite often. I moved VLC from default audio to ALSA and this got rid of the static / echo / choppiness. There was much rejoicing. However, I then picked up problem #60. This is a somewhat acceptable solution - I usually just use the menu "playback" -> "jump backwards" to fix the problem as this gives a more precise amount of replay and I never encounter the bad audio. I tried the famous fix #23 and it made things worse. VLC would start with no sound for about 20 seconds. Moving the slider to a new point resulted in the same no audio problem. I backed that out right away. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751265 Title: pulseaudio distorts VLC audio Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio Audio quality full of hiss (similar to what it might sound like if you pulled your headphone/speaker plug out halfway). The hiss distortion is constant and affects all VLC 1.1.8 audio. True for all audio sources: internet stream, mp3, cd, flv, etc. Problem occurred on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04 beta (32-bit) using only the included repositories, and updated as of today's date. Pulseaudio version: 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu2 Disabling pulseaudio allows VLC to play cleanly. Have not observed audio distortion with other players using pulseaudio. Would like to see VLC operate properly with pulseaudio. I had no issues on same machine using Ubuntu 10.10 and VLC 1.1.4. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: blaine 2039 F...m vlc Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Audigy2'/'SB Audigy 2 [SB0350b] (rev.4, serial:0x20061102) at 0xcc80, irq 19' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9750,51' Components : 'AC97a:83847650' Controls : 211 Simple ctrls : 46 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x8ca'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x8ca at usb-0000:00:1d.7-6, high speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB046d:08ca' Controls : 2 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 3072 Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [18.00dB] [off] Card2.Amixer.info: Card hw:2 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xefddc000 irq 43' Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI' Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100200' Controls : 4 Simple ctrls : 1 Card2.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Date: Tue Apr 5 06:32:13 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/08/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A07 dmi.board.name: 0HJ054 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 6 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd01/08/2007:svnDellInc.:pnDellDM051:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HJ054:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr: dmi.product.name: Dell DM051 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/751265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
