Fix VLC’s skipping sound in Karmic beta

Laurent | October 6, 2009 | 10:15 am

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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2 responses

Thanks so much for this. It really annoyed me and

mistermartin75 | October 16, 2009 | 7:03 pm | Comment reply: Reply to this comment

Thanks so much for this. It really annoyed me and I didn’t want to go back to mplayer or something.

Many thanks - worked for me too. Spent a while

Ciaran | October 27, 2009 | 11:40 am | Comment reply: Reply to this comment

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.