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So, you are saying that I need to overclock my Quadcore CPU to play MP3 files? lol

Maybe you should read this thread a second time

Yes, and just tried vlc-1.2.0-git-20101128-0002-win32. Still suffers sync drift with a software overclock. Happy to try any test builds if any are make before available before applying code to trunk. Let me know if there is. main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (46761) mai...

It seems to be system timing issue. VLC is using a clock that is affected by CPU reference clock (fsb) adjustment by software. Overclocking the pc via BIOS doesn't present a problem, neither does CPU features such as cool n quite, speedstep, etc.. But, if you change the CPU reference clock (fsb) whi...

Ok, well, i found the source of the problem, and its a bit of a substantial bug i guess...... Chances are, its probably the same factor in these posts too... http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=84606 http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=84772 http://forum.videolan.org/vi...

Playback of ANY MP3 audio is very poor, choppy and glitchy with dropouts. Both MP3 audio in Films, or MP3 music files. Other formats are fine however, flac, aac, ogg...and so on... This issue is only with VLC, all other media players will playback MP3 audio fine. Winamp, Foobar, MPC-HC, PotPlayer, W...