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I've been noticing a lot of audio distortion in certain files recently. The audio is choppy, almost like a retrigger effect. Based on my testing it seems to be avi files, although I haven't tested more than about 10 files. I downloaded MPV and that plays the same files without any audio issues, so I believe it's VLC specific. My free memory is ~4GB so I don't think that is the issue. I tried some things I found in this thread https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 77#p339577 but none worked. After each change I restarted and tried playing the same file. Any ideas?

Change the audio output module - had no effect (other than some modules that caused audio to stop)
Not to use a volume over 100% - n/a
Disable time stretching in the audio preferences - no effect
Enable the equalizer Tools -> Effects and Filters -> Audio Effects -> Graphic Equalizer then tick the Enable box - Couldn't find this setting
Increase the file cache to 1000 or 2000 ms - no effect
Force the number of FFmpeg threads to 4 or 2 or even 1 - no effect
Use a faster resampler by setting the Sample Rate Converter type to Zero Holder Hold Menu Tools -> Preferences (Show Settings = ALL) -> Audio -> SRC Resampler - couldn't find this setting

Hi,

I have the same problem, the audio is really bad sometimes and it looks like robots... I may have found the solution by changing my movies with .avi by .mkv and the audio is good again ! Hope it can help you.

I've mostly given up on this - since it seems to be nearly all avi files I'm just using MPV instead.

Hello, version 2.2.5 is finally available on www.videolan.org now fixing that problem. It will be distributed through the internal updater starting next Monday.

Upgraded last month to 2.2.4 (from 2.1.5), discovered similarly audio distortion on mp3 files, both VBR and CBR. Confirmed that 2.2.5.1 resolve this issue. MacOS 10.12.5.