[vlc-devel] Re: VLC audio bug

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On zaterdag, mei 31, 2003, at 13:05 Europe/Amsterdam, Guenther Bauer 
wrote:
> I am using Mac OS X 10.2.6 on a PowerMac G4 500 MHz (AGP), 512 MB of 
> RAM and an ATI Radeon 8500 with 64 MB (the original card was an ATI 
> Rage 128 Pro with 16 MB which I replaced recently).
>
> I am using also the newest version of VLC (0.5.3).
>
> When playing MPEGs or AVIs (Divx) the sound passes out only after 
> about a minute. You can hear a short crackling, then the sound is 
> gone. You can revive the audio by switching to another channel (e.g. 
> "reverse stereo") for about a minute, then the same happens again, 
> until I start the procedure of switching the channel again. This goes 
> on and on and I don't know why. I have spoken to another VLC user, who 
> is experiencing the same problem.
>
> The problem always happens, but is not really reproduceable. When 
> watching a movie, the sound can pass out after 1 minute and two 
> seconds as well as after 54 seconds on the same movie. So you can 
> watch this phenomenon with every file, but can't predict the exact 
> time or position when it will happen.
>
> I hope you are aware of this bug and know a solution.

This is indeed a known bug. we hope we fixed it though. Could you 
PLEASE test our test release of 0.6.0 ???
You can download it here 
http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-0.6.0-test2/macosx

See if this solves your problems and let us know your results, both in 
fixed and not fixed case.

DJ

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Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj at users.sourceforge.net)
Co-Developer of the MacOS X port of vlc
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

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