[vlc] Fast switching between audio tracks?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> On 02 Feb, Chris Angelico wrote :
>> Thanks, I'd pretty much given up hope of a response to that :) I
>> mainly use 2.0.3 (on Debian Wheezy), but gave 2.2.0 (on Debian Jessie)
>> a shot; sadly, the sound simply cut out when I hit b (the OSD said the
>> name of the next audio track, but it didn't play). Will have to track
>> down what's going on there.
>
> Pulse or Alsa?

While the list is still alive, I'll keep discussing here, but will
shift to someplace else when the time comes.

With an early January build of VLC from git, using ALSA, I get the
same result: switch audio tracks, audio disappears and doesn't come
back. The exact same file on the exact same computer, played with
2.0.3, switches correctly (but with the aforementioned gap).

rosuav at sikorsky:~/vlc$ ./vlc --version
VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-1924-g2703bba)
VLC version 3.0.0-git Vetinari (2.2.0-git-1924-g2703bba)
Compiled by rosuav on sikorsky.kepl.com.au (Jan  2 2015 01:22:56)
Compiler: gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)

ChrisA