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Another quick update, if I change the Audio channels in VLC, the sound comes back. So for now I'm stuck with switching between Stereo and Reverse Stereo whenever my sound goes out.

I played around with some other sound options, and I still get random broken pipes. I am unable to localize this. Has anyone else ever had a problem like this? My hardware info: Card Model: CS4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] I'm not sure if that's correct, because it's actuall...

Bingo.

Problem lies in libmpeg2. I rolled back to an earlier version (the one recommended by VLC) and it works beautifully.

Thanks for all your help guys. Now if I can just fix the other problem (see my ALSA broken pipe post).

Hey, thanks again for all your help! jduv@schala2-lnx ~ > rpm -qa | grep .pm libxine1-1.1.4-0.pm.0 libdvdread-0.9.7-0.pm.0 mjpegtools-1.8.0-38.pm.0 libofx-0.8.3-42.pm.1 gstreamer010-plugins-base-oil-0.10.11-0.pm.1 Azureus-3.0.0.7-B04.pm.1 swfdec-0.3.6-0.pm.3 gpm-1.20.1-340 a52dec-0.7.4-3.pm.1 speex-...

Thanks for your reply. jduv@schala2-lnx fonts > rpm -q vlc vlc-0.8.6a-3.0 Also, I recently installed mplayer and it dies on mpg's as well. Totem, however, works perfectly fine. This leads me to believe that the problem may not be with VLC, but with ffmpeg or mpeg2dec. I installed VLC by following th...

Hello again, I looked through the forums for something similar to my problem and I didn't come up with anything. Occasionally while playing something in VLC the audio will break and I will get the following messages in a terminal: [00000325] alsa audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe) [00000...

It is probably useful to also note which versions of ffmpeg and mpec2dec I have on my machine:

Hello VLC community! I have VLC 0.8.6a running on SuSE Linux 10.2. Whenever I try and open a MPG or MPEG format file, I get the following lovely output (ran with vlc -vvvv) jduv@schala2-lnx ~ > vlc -vvv VLC media player 0.8.6a Janus [00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] ...