[vlc] Smooth in mplayer, choppy in vlc

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On 10/25/14 01:53, Grant wrote:
>>> 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
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You got libsamplerate, ffmpeg set? If it still doesnt work, try building 
with these USE flags --

X a52 aalib alsa avcodec avformat cdda dbus dirac dts dvbpsi dvd encode 
ffmpeg flac kde libass libnotify libsamplerate matroska mmx mp3 mpeg 
musepack ogg opengl png postproc qt4 schroedinger sdl sdl-image sid 
skins speex sse svg swscale taglib theora truetype twolame udev v4l 
vaapi vcdx vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -altivec -atmo -audioqueue -avahi 
-bidi -bluray -cddb -chromaprint -dc1394 -debug -directfb -directx -dvb 
-dxva2 -egl -faad -fdk -fluidsynth -fontconfig -gcrypt -gme -gnome 
-gnutls -growl -httpd -ieee1394 -ios-vout -jack -kate -libcaca -libtar 
-libtiger -linsys -lirc -live -lua -macosx -macosx-audio 
-macosx-dialog-provider -macosx-eyetv -macosx-qtkit -macosx-quartztext 
-macosx-vout -media-library -modplug -mtp -ncurses -neon -omxil -opencv 
-optimisememory -opus -projectm -pulseaudio -qt5 -rdp -rtsp -run-as-root 
-samba -sftp -shout -test -tremor -upnp -vdpau -vlm -vnc -wma-fixed -zvbi

Just for testing.