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I have been using VLC for sometime now, it is a great media player. I have recently noticed a problem: when I am playing more than one file and have the playlist window open VLC sometimes will do one of two things. Either unexpectedly close without notice, just disappear; or a dialog box apears sayi...

I think you can turn the default audio volume (Settings-Preferences-Audio) down to around 128 or so and it is the same as reducing it by half. Apparently when using Win32 wave out as your audio output module VLC gets confused between it's own volume and windows wave out volume. To demonstrate this o...

I was wondering if VLC is able to decode an incoming DTS stream (say from S/PDIF in on your soundcard) and play it back over 5.1 speakers on the same sound card. My soundcard is an Audugy 2 NX. I know VLC supports DTS because I use it on DVDs all the time and it works great.

I can understand why no one has found a solution for my problem because the problem is not being caused by one of VLC's faults, but simply one of it's handy features. VLC by default increases the volume of a played file by almost 50% (just a guess from my tests) I learned and in some cases, when the...

I have recently noticed that spontaneously VLC will garble and chop up the audio files I am playing (it sounds almost like a CD skipping). The problem started on my laptop (Pentium M 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM, Onboard Graphics, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX External USB 24bit soundcard) while I was playing a 16...