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I tried pulseaudio and vlc 2.0.1 today. I always had in mind pulseaudio in combination with passthrough was a no go. Obviously I missed something and things are a lot better today: ac3/DD audio passthrough is working fine with vlc and pulseaudio. So I can confirm the current problem must be related ...

Created Trac Ticket #6565: "not synchronized / buffer way too early -> no sound" when "use S/PDIF" is enabled. Saw the same error messages in the Windows forum. Could it be for the same reason? It was mentioned to be related to the CPU clock there. Not overclocking mine. I will t...

Thanks for looking into this! I Installed both stable and master from daily build PPA and both now work for some files. For others they do not :( . I found sometimes I can get it to work by seeking forward a bit. Not sure it is related to the container format in some way. No problem with .avi files ...

O.k., thanks. I found the problem also exists in git-master and I created a trac ticket: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6193

Hi, I just upgraded from 1.1.13 to 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 using the VLC PPA ppa:n-muench/vlc . I found everything working besides the audio passthrough to HDMI which was working before. My settings are: Output module: ALSA, Use S/PDIF when available, Device: HDA NVidia, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device ...