Same problem here
Sound is choppy. Small silence <1 sec occurs every 5/10 minutes.
- Media: MKV file, Audio codec a52, 5 channels, 48 Khz, 640 kb/s
- Machine: MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM, MacOS 10.5.5 and now 10.5.6
- VLC 0.98 Grishenko Intel
- Audio receiver 5.1/DD and DTS compliant connected with the internal jack optical SPDIF MacBookPro output.
I tried:
- play with faster harddisk than the internal (same result)
- increase the input buffer
Log messages (not sure it happens exactly with the silence happens)
main debug: audio output is starving (32042), playing silence
I googled and search here, some some clue but nothing very clear.
Is this a very old defect?
Is this related to the atmo explanation about Dual Core on
ticket 492?
I would be glad to help the one that would be able to take care of that bug.