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dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

VLC weird audio

I can hear the audio and everything, that's not the problem.  But every 30 seconds or so the audio comes out sounding like a robot (only way I can describe it:(), it lasts for a few seconds then goes back to normal.  It's understandable, but i'd rather have it perfect. 

This happens with every .avi file i've tried.  I can't open them in mplayer because I get:

The playback of this movie requires the following decoders which are not installed:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 decoder

I have xvidcore/divx4linux installed so I don't know why i'm getting those errors.  Any suggestions?

luciferin

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Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 144

Re: VLC weird audio

Try

sudo pacman -Su gstreamer0.10-xvid

I'm pretty sure VLC uses gstreamer...

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: VLC weird audio

Worked, thanks!

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: VLC weird audio

Scratch that.  It's still happening.

alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: VLC weird audio

vlc doesnt use gstreamer, so that isnt the problem

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: VLC weird audio

I decided to run VLC through terminal to see if anything came up, and this happens:

[00000334] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)

Google turns up nothing.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: VLC weird audio

VLC breaks constantly with changes to its dependencies. You can either rebuild and see if that works, or change to something like Mplayer which is much more resilient.

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: VLC weird audio

VLC breaks constantly with changes to its dependencies. You can either rebuild and see if that works, or change to something like Mplayer which is much more resilient.

I wish I could use mplayer but I get
The playback of this movie requires the following decoders which are not installed:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 decoder

for most of my videos.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: VLC weird audio

Mplayer not able to play MP3 or DivX (MP4)?  There's something very wrong here. First, try to play your file with the following command and let me know what happened:

ffplay <your_file>

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: VLC weird audio

ffplay works fine.  I suppose I can set that as the default viewing program of .avi files.

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: VLC weird audio

I decided to run VLC through terminal to see if anything came up, and this happens:

[00000334] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)

Google turns up nothing.

Anyone had the chance to identify the cause of this problem? I'm having this with latest stable release and .9 branch as well...

TIA

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

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Re: VLC weird audio

I get the same problem:

[00000342] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)

often accompanied by crackling in the speakers.

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: VLC weird audio

using ffmpeg-svn and latest vlc nighlty I could build (march 19) solved this issue for me.
(not sure which one did what and too lazy to experiement TBH)