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My ALSA settings are fine. No other media players have this problem. Interestingly, today I was playing an mp4 (recorded from my android phone) in Windows 7 on VLC and about 26 min into the video, the sound dropped out. Just like in Linux. I wondered if something was wrong with the recording so I op...

Don't know if this will help or not but here goes. I was listening to an mp3 podcast and the audio suddenly quit. No video here. I restarted it and the audio got about 1 syllable out before dying... user@main-linux:~/Temp$ vlc file.mp3 -v VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported) [0x14...

Same here, aprx 19:38 into an hour-long video. Version 1.1.12 on Xubuntu 11.10. [0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (176931), dropping buffer [0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (150809), dropping buffer [0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio...

Thank you very much to all those who have written and contributed to VLC! I also am very grateful for the source code. I'm a software engineering student and having some real source code to look at is very helpful!