[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.
>
>
> 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.


I switched to all of that except for kde and the result is the same.

- Grant