Massive VLC problems - Win 98

[WF]

Hello,
hope someone can help.
When using VLC, I can play video and audio, but audio is 'corrupted' (just like with an extreme loud metallic noise).
Additionally, as soon as a submenu expands, the whole menu doesnt react any more. This means I can't hardly do anything.
VLC seems to be a nice player, but with this it is unbearable.

My system:
Win 98SE
AMD Athlon 2,6 GHz
512 MB RAM
AC97 onboard sound

Thanks in advance

[Gibalou]

Please, have a try at: http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc ... st2/win32/
And tell us if it is any better.

If your audio problem is still not solved, you can try to select the "waveOut audio output" plugin in the VLC preferences in the audio section.

[WF]

Thanks.
At least this did solve the "hanging menus"-problem, but unfortunately it did nothing about my sound problems. Also I have to add that it's even worse than described: VLC randomly crashes the whole system (showing a bluescreen) when playing any audio. I tried several different file types, all show the same problem. Don't suppose this was a hardware problem, any other application works fine. Changing the audio output device also had no effect.

[DiSCO]

I have the same problem, running Win98 (don't ask )...

Sound is very distorted and the picture is very dark, unable to view certain movies at all.

The controls for altering picture brightness don't work either...

[Paule]

Same problem on several hardware!
Same problem with VLC 0.7.x - 0.8.1!

Pentium IV 1,8 - 2,6GHz, ATI Rage xxx, sound onboard (AsusP4Bxxx/P4Pxxx) etc: under W2K or XP it works fine, under W98SE (on the same machine!) there's only noise. Changed nearly every setting (step-by-step), no sucess.
Any other player works fine ... no hardwareproblem!


Any chance to solve this problem???