This is a known PulseAudio bug. For some unknown reasons, PA sometimes triggers the VLC stream about 2 seconds later than requested. According to reports, this disappears with tsched=0 (I never reproduced the bug myself).
See also https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141796 and https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6853 ** Bug watch added: VLC Trac #6853 http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6853 ** Package changed: vlc (Ubuntu) => pulseaudio (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1025809 Title: VLC audio out of sync on pausing and resuming To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1025809/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
