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What audio output are you using for VLC? Sometimes the audio output can cause stuttering that looks like video effects. (this is probably magnified with HD video as it has 5.1 usually) The default output is alsa, this can be a little buggy when compared to the pulse plugin. (which is available throu...

Absolutely no problem!
Pulseaudio is great when it works

After I finally managed to get fedora installed and sound coming out I have worked out the source of the problem and have submitted the following patch upstream. Basically the prebuf size needs halving. Could you test this for me please? I have it working on my fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha now. k...

This is my patch that seems to be causing issues. The patch forces pulse to use a lower latency mode and reduces clicking significantly during playback with multiple channel streams, it also adjusts the buffer sizes to be more in-line with the newer pulseaudio server. On what I have tested it works ...

Hi,
Just as an update to this I wrote a patch that has been added to the git tree that supports surround sound (7.1,5.1,4.0, etc) pulseaudio output.
It should be in 0.9.6 or is available from git source.

kind regards,
Danny