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If I do the change I get sound out of the speakers, but it's most noise. It is possible to relate a small part of the noise to the playing file. However, it's not possible to understand voices or listen to the music. I would guess it's 90% noise and 10% real audio...

It's "good" to see that I'm not the only one with this problem. I might add that I looked through the suggested thread above, but with no luck.

Is there anyone out there that can run VLC with an optical output?

That's correct – I have optical audio. The 5.1 setup is connected through a toslink cable via the built in optical audio port.

Other applications seem to be able to handle it so it suppose the speaker system works as it should.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.3 with a 5.1 speaker setup (Logitech 680-Z) via the optical audio port on my G5. For some reason no sound is played. This is what the Console says when I'm trying that config: [00000190] main input: playlist item `/Volumes/Infinity/test.avi' [00000193] a52 decoder: A/52 channel...