[vlc] Re: VLC compatability concern . . .

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Sat, May 21, 2005, Joshua Danneman wrote :
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> Sorry to trouble you as I'm sure you're all very busy but I'm having 
> problems with my VLC player.  I have checked the knowledgebase and your 
> message board but no mention of the exact issue I'm having.  When I used 
> the audio chip that's intergrated on my motherboard that audio worked fine 
> in VLC and everything else.  The other night though I bought a MP3+ 
> external sound unit from Creative Labs.
> 
> http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=207&product=154
> 
> After installing it and rebooting I now have sound from everything except 
> VLC and I have no idea why.  All the other players (media Player 9, 
> quicktime, winamp, etc) play sounds fine as do all my web browsers.  The 
> problem being all the other video players, to be brutaly honest, suck 
> compared to your product.  Your video playback is always flawless and 
> that's why I'm in search of an answer to this issue.  I can not think of 
> anything else that would aid you in addressing this except my PC 
> specifications.  It's an old PC so please try to refrain from laughter.
> 
> Dell V400
> Pentium II 400 MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> Rage Pro II intergrated video
> Soundblaster MP3+ USB Audio system
> Win98 SE
> 
> Everything is fully up-to-date and like I said VLC worked just fine before 
> the new audio device was installed.  I even went so far as to disable the 
> intergrated audio in BIOS, uninstall the MP3+, uninstalled VLC, then 
> reinstalled MP3+, and then reinstalled VLC but to no avail.  I was going to 
> contact Creative Labs but considering it works fine with everything else I 
> figured it was a compatability issue with VLC and that they would have said 
> the same thing.  I know that VLC has issues with Audigy 2 but my MP3+ isn't 
> listed under that category.  It's listed under "others".  Any help you have 
> to offer would be greatly appreciated though.  I would be willing to test 
> any sort of patch you could offer up to help correct this issue.  I mean 
> the whole reason I bought the MP3+ was to hook up my pc to my stereo to 
> have great sound to go with such great video.
> 

Well, VLC should use the device set as default device in the sound
preferences on windows. Is the issue that VLC doesn't produce any sound,
or that the sound still comes out the integrated sound card ?

Could you provide the content of the view->message box ?

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BigBen

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