Video and audio suddenly slow and skipping.

[Auluna]

When I tried to play a video just a few minutes ago, the audio was skipping terribly, and the video was going quite slow. I believe that my VLC player is updated (nothing turned up when I checked for updates). I'm not sure what happened. The other day it was working perfectly fine, and today it's gone completely screwy on me. Can someone help me please?

Edit: I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and the problem is even worse. I deleted all preferences and cache, and nothing. What would make it just go crazy like this?

[Anna52]

After upgrading my VLC to 2.1, the sound started stuttering. The video is fine, but the stuttering is so bad so the program is useless.
I have tried to delete some add-in files as recommended (libsamplerate_plugin.dll). However, they were not there. I have increased the cashing, I have changed the output model. Nothing helped. In other words, I have been a real car mechanic today, so the free product is not so free any more.

I uninstalled the 2.1 and reinstalled 1.1.9. and everything is fine. So until somebody finds out that sometimes developments are moving backwards, reinstall the old version.

I'm running a Lenovo T420. Win 7, 6 Gb RAM. No other program that I know of were running while trying VLC.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

2.1 is a development version. It should not be a surprise that it has bugs. You're welcome to report them at the bug report site.

[Auluna]

I just uninstalled VLC and installed version 1.1.9, working beautifully now.