Mavericks not happy after VLC tries to play DTS or AC3

[macona]

It was working fine up until the other week, I could play any DTS or AC3 with no problem. I went to replay a file and suddenly it just won't play AC3 or DTS and when I try it really messes up the system. When you launch a file with it it starts playing for just a second as the receiver changes modes and then things go wonky and the video freezes. The whole machine becomes sluggish. If you try to access the sound preferences you get a beach ball, open up a web page and if there is flash it won't load. Really weird.

Yet I can play the same files though Mplayer X with DTS or AC3.

I tried deleting prefs and upgrading to the newest VLC, no effect.

Any ideas?

[dfuhrmann]

It looks like your coreaudio might got seriously confused. In this case the best solution is to restart the OS.

[macona]

I pretty much have to restart the computer every time I try to launch a file that used AC3 or DTS, it screws the system up that badly.

Tried reinstalling MacOS last night and it still does it.

[dfuhrmann]

Please upload a complete VLC log so we can check what might be wrong.