Weird Audio PassThru Problem

[BaranE]

Hi all. I have been using VLC on my macs as my main player since osx tiger. Never had any problems to this day.I have a mac mini running as a dedicated htpc with vlc. Since the 10.6.8 update whenever I play an mkv file thru encoded output it plays fine. But no audio comes following the first file (ie i cant get audio from another file mkv; mp3 or anything else till i restart but if i play another mkv w passthru its the same story with other files i want to play) I tried updating everything and reinstalled vlc. What might be causing the problem and how can I fix it?

[fkuehne]

Tried to reset VLC's preferences? Delete both a folder called "org.videolan.vlc" and a file named "org.videolan.vlc.plist" in ~/Library/Preferences

[BaranE]

Already tried resetting the preferences but to no avail. I still have no audio after playing an mkv with passthru.

[doozer]

Same problem here...
Deleted preferences too with no change.

[BaranE]

Any suggestions for a solution?

[doozer]

None I'm afraid. Tried deleting vlc and preferences and installing older versions. No change. Makes me think it's not down to VLC player.
Dunno....

[BaranE]

Yeap I can confirm it's system related. Mplayer OSX extended or any other player(incl. qt x w perian) has the same exact problem. If only there was a way to revert back to 10.6.7 w/o a format or reinstall.

[BaranE]

None I'm afraid. Tried deleting vlc and preferences and installing older versions. No change. Makes me think it's not down to VLC player.
Dunno....

OK Found a solution on apple discussion forums.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/31 ... 5&tstart=0

restore the HD/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

just select it, start timemachine a restore old kext from date when you have 10.6.7 installed..