.Markku Reunanen.

VLC 2.1.x plus Linux plus ALSA equals trouble

August 19th, 2014

Quite many people seem to suffer from the same problem as I with VLC versions around 2.1.4: DVD playback stutters, jumps and lags. There didn’t seem to be any definitive solution to the problem and it doesn’t even affect everybody. If you’re googling around, then here’s what I did: switch audio settings from default or ALSA to Pulseaudio (and install it if needed, like in Lubuntu). Tips like setting the drive region, changing the demuxer or installing various extra libs worked as good as waving your hands in the air. It seems there’s some problem with the way audio is synchronized with ALSA. Apparently the bug is fixed in 2.1.5, but as of now all *.Ubuntus don’t yet come with that version or aren’t otherwise patched.

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