Problem playing m3u with VLC 1.1.4 (played fine with 0.8.6h)

[notevenahin57]

Hello,
I upgraded to the newest version of VLC from 0.8.6h, and I am no longer able to listen to m3u audio streams. I reverted back to the old version and verified that it does play fine with that, but would really like to upgrade to the new version due to the expanded command line interface and other benefits. Any reason why this would be?

Also, a little off topic, there is about a 1 second delay on the audio stream from the video stream (we have TVs for the video, and the audio is multicast to user computers). Any suggestions on how to decrease this?

Thanks!