[vlc] Smooth in mplayer, choppy in vlc

[Grant]

>> You're right, I tried a 1080p Blu-Ray rip and it is also choppy with
>> audio enabled and smooth with audio disabled.  mplayer plays both the
>> Blu-Ray rip and the 60fps file smoothly.  I fiddled with the vlc audio
>> settings to no avail.  Do you know how to fix this?
>
> mplayer is probably using alsa, and VLC is using pulseaudio. Try switching
> the audio output between alsa and pulse in VLC.


I'm on Gentoo and I don't have pulseaudio installed.  I've tried
designating ALSA specifically in the vlc settings but performance is
still choppy.

- Grant