On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:04 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:39 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > I use VLC (vlc-0.8.4a-1.lvn5) as my main video player on FC5. I've had > > lots of issues with the audio. If I play a video and try to jump > > ahead, most time the the audio gets choppy, like static. I can reset > > it by disabling and re-enabling the audio, but that's a pain. > > I've seen similar things with *some* files with any player that I use > (sound suddenly goes all noisy and crappy if you did anything, even > adjust the volume). I've always suspected it was the particular files > being badly created more than the player. > In my case it's only a problem with vlc. If I open the same files vlc has problems with in another player, like xine or mplayer, I do not have the same problem. > "AVI" isn't really a file type, you'd need to find out what encoding is > being used in those AVI containers, for someone to say if they suffer > the same problem. At best, being "AVI" only suggests that you've got > some sort of audio/video file. > True, I was being to general. The file in my example is divx encoded. I did try updating vlc at one time but didn't like the newer version for a reason I don't remember. Maybe I'll try updating to see if the audio issues are still present. Thanks, James
