I can confirm this bug as described above. It also affects video playback.
Changing the output to OSS helps.
~/ aptitude show vlc
Package: vlc
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.2-1ubuntu1
Debug output is something like this:
...
main warning: audio drift is too big (161635), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (129635), dropping buffer
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (43017)
main warning: audio drift is too big (140256), dropping buffer
main debug: audio output is starving (23577), playing silence
alsa debug: recovered from buffer underrun
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (43101)
...
** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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vlc buffer underrun
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417098
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