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I updated to version 1.1.12 on Arch linux and have following problem now:

After a few minutes of playing a video, the audio suddenly stops playing (the video plays on fine) and the only way to fix this is to close vlc and start the video again. I experienced this problem with a few different videos (which are all playing fine in mplayer).
The equalizer visualisation starts to lag extremely the same moment the audio stops.

What can cause this bug?

It could be many things. Without logs, stack traces nor sample files, nobody can say.

Thats the output "vlc -v videofile.avi" gave:

Same here, aprx 19:38 into an hour-long video. Version 1.1.12 on Xubuntu 11.10.

[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (176931), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (150809), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (124686), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (547869)
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (646319), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (620197), dropping buffer
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[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (515707), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (489585), dropping buffer
[0x2092ff0] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (463462), dropping buffer
[0x7fefb0057c20] main video output warning: late picture skipped (1359434 > -12)
[0x7fefb0057c20] main video output warning: late picture skipped (1234310 > -12)
[0x7fefb0057c20] main video output warning: late picture skipped (1276018 > -12)
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header damaged
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You've stripped the interesting part of the log. This is useless.

Don't know if this will help or not but here goes. I was listening to an mp3 podcast and the audio suddenly quit. No video here. I restarted it and the audio got about 1 syllable out before dying...

user@main-linux:~/Temp$ vlc file.mp3 -v
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
[0x1435120] main libvlc warning: This doesn't look like a valid plugins cache
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x1435120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:4084): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-9914), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-35938), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] alsa audio output error: cannot write: Broken pipe
[0x18ffa00] alsa audio output error: cannot write: Broken pipe
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (87057)
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: buffer is 87056 late, triggering upsampling
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (85775)
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (172785), dropping buffer
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[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (328169), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (302047), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (275924), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (249802), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (223679), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (197557), dropping buffer
[0x18ffa00] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (171434), dropping buffer

Your ALSA device is not working correctly. Fix your configuration.

My ALSA settings are fine. No other media players have this problem. Interestingly, today I was playing an mp4 (recorded from my android phone) in Windows 7 on VLC and about 26 min into the video, the sound dropped out. Just like in Linux. I wondered if something was wrong with the recording so I opened it in Windows Media Player. No problems at all.

VLC was nice while it worked. I'll probably still use it occasionally but when audio completely drops out at random times, on two completely different OS platforms, it becomes obvious where the problem lies.

Oh, well if it's MP4 only and cross-platform, then it might be a timestamping issue specific to MP4. You made it sound like it was a systematic problem. As to whether it is a bug in the VLC parser, the FFmpeg parser or the file authoring tool, I don't know.

You really should try VLC 1.2, and if it still fails, file a bug INCLUDING A SAMPLE FILE,