I’ve been having issues with sound in VLC since I installed the latest Karmic beta. Sound works fine in all other media players, but VLC would just skip/stutter through every media file I played. Turns out it’s easy to fix – switch the audio output to ALSA and select the correct device. I had to do this through the advanced settings window and in the same sequence as below, or VLC would freeze every time I made changes.
Open Tools > Preferences and select All under Show settings.
Then select your device under Audio > Output modules > ALSA. Click Refresh list if it only gives you the Default option.
Go to Audio > Output modules and select ALSA audio output and save.
Your sound should now work perfectly.
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October 16th, 2009 on 7:03 pm
Thanks so much for this. It really annoyed me and I didn’t want to go back to mplayer or something.
October 27th, 2009 on 11:40 am
Many thanks – worked for me too. Spent a while tinkering with cache values of various modules, which I’ve had to do before, then resorted to Googling and ended up here for an instant fix.
March 22nd, 2010 on 11:03 pm
Thanks for sharing this!!
Never before has an Ubuntu upgrade caused me so many headaches >.< But thanks to you I can now work on all the other issues with un-stuttering music playing in the background!