On 03/03/11 00:08, Matthew Monaco wrote:
What output are you using? I'm on HDMI. Here is what happens in VLC with a verbosity of 2 for every skip:
Built-in laptop output (both internal speakers and headphone jack work). lspci calls it "Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)". Working with either plain ALSA or Pulseaudio in force. (Modulo an unrelated default-muted-channel issue that I fix every boot so I can hear anything.) My laptop has a Mini-DVI port for which I have no adapters, and USB and Firewire ports but e.g. I have no USB Audio devices, so I don't think there are any other output modes I can test.
[0x3415df0] main audio output debug: audio output is starving (21344), playing silence [0x3415df0] alsa audio output debug: recovered from buffer underrun
Is that log output from VLC? Kernel? Something else?
I've found some forum postings on this, but can't find any definitive solutions, certainly nothing that's worked for me.
Certainly you're having a problem! I'm just hoping that the info that not everyone has the problem is helpful for debugging (or I could post some log if you think it'd help).
FYI, sometimes I get skipping due to system load (additionally DVDs, being optical media - high latency -, are often a bit more annoying) -- but I can deal with these whenever they occur by closing other open programs.
-Isaac
