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Here's what worked for me: Open VLC. From the toolbar at the top, Tools > Preferences > All [ note that you must check the radio button at the bottom to get into the ALL screen ] > Input/Codecs > Preferred decoders list [ note that you need to scroll all the way to the end to see 'Preferred decoders...

Thanks to all. That seems to have done the trick!! And for ease of reference for those who may happen upon this thread, the settings may not be immediately obvious - See bold for additional guidance: Here's the procedure: Open VLC. From the toolbar at the top, Tools > Preferences > All [note that yo...

Ok thanks. But I see only the video in your link, and have NO audio - this on a different player at work using Windows media center - so i can't tell what beeping sound you were hearing. In any case, I'll try the fix when I get home tonight and report back.

Did your bad audio sound like this?
http://streams.videolan.org/issues/10054/Sample.ogg

OK I'll give it a shot.
Thanks.

It looks like the moderators have moved my post to this thread from here - https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=116346 But the sounds I hear when trying to play m2ts are not the beeping sounds described above, but the buzzing sounds described (and sampled) in the original thread. I ga...

Hi - First post. I recently installed 2.1.3 (Windows 32 bit version on a Windows 8.1 PC) and am experiencing the exact same issue with m2ts playback as described above. My audio sounds exactly like the above sound clip. Video plays correctly, but audio is bad. For reference, the TS files that I am u...