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Just to update on this for anyone in the future; The problem is not with VLC, the issue is the fact I had a USB 2.0 audio interface (Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6) connected to the Mac. It was actually set up as an aggregate device with my UAD Apollo 8 Thunderbolt interface. After trying absol...

Not sure if I've done this correctly but see below: main debug: VLC media player - 3.0.16 Vetinari main debug: Copyright © 1996-2021 the VideoLAN team main debug: revision 3.0.16-0-g5e70837d8d main debug: configured with /Users/d-fu/vlc-3.0/extras/package/macosx/../../../configure '--prefix=/Users/d...

Have recently set up a new (to me) Mac, which is a 2013 Mac Pro, 6 core, 3.5GHz, 32GB RAM with a clean install of Mojave then immediately updated to Big Sur. All is functioning well. Playing mp4 videos on VLC 3.0.16 produces absolutely dreadful audio distortion, and brief total audio dropouts roughl...