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Hi
I am using Fedora 16 Kernel 3.2.9-2.fc26.x86_64, Gnome 3.2.1 and VLC 1.1.13. I love the VLC Player and I am wondering how to address a pesky little problem that has been apparent for many versions. It seems that when opening VLC for the first time after a boot the sound is 'garbled' or 'crackly'. It may persist for up to a minute and sometimes even longer. I notice that the Video and Audio seem to be off a bit when this happens but is perfectly in sync once the sound clears up.
I have posted questions on the Fedora forums and the only help given is to put 'pulseaudio --kill' and then 'pulseaudio --start' in my .bashrc, but this has less than perfect results. This garbled sound affects the Skype app as well as VLC. I hate to have to reboot to clear up this sound and it doesn't always work anyway.
Can anyone explain what I might do to fix this problem as it relates to VLC?
Robert
CPU AMD 955 Quad Core
MoBo Gigabyte MA785GM-UD2H-AM3 MicroATX
Memory 8 Gigs OCZ DDR3-1333 PC-10666

If it also affects Skype, then it is probably a bug between PulseAudio and your audio ALSA device driver.

That being said, PulseAudio output does not work very well before VLC 2.0.

Hi Remi
Thanks for the reply. When would 2.0 be available for Linux? Should I consider rolling back my version of VLC, as I never had this problem previously?
Thanks for all your help.

VLC 2.0 has been available for Linux for a month or so.

Hi Remi
I have several machines running F16 and VLC 1.1.13 and, apart from the garbled sound (which always clears up) I can play movies etc. with no problems. Today I installed F16 on a machine (Laptop Aspire 5749-6475) and it would not play the movie 'Shooter'. The error was as follows: ---> Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l2://' Check the log for details.
All my machines and this new Laptop are at exactly the same Kernel and VLC version. It plays on all of my machines but not on the new Laptop. It works on my wife's (Aspire Laptop7736-6936), which is also an Acer. Is this a DRM issue or a missing decryption library; or both?
Thanks...
Robert

VLC 2.0 has been available for Linux for a month or so.

Hi Remi
I will attempt to look into this version. I usually use RPM's. Thanks...
Robert