Horrible Audio problems

[Just1nCase]

Lately, my VideoLAN Player has been acting up with audio problems using Windows XP.

When I play some video files in my VLCplayer, the audio is skipping badly, but the video is fine even though I have no applications running other than my Zonealarm Firewall application, BitDefender Anti-Virus, Google Desktop, & Yahoo! Widgets.

What is the problem? I have no clue what to do. I tried restarting my computer, defragging, scan for viruses, clean my registry, update my VideoLAN player, but none of them seem to work.

Please let me know. Thanks!

Here are the specs of my computer:

* ASRock 939DualSATAII
* AMD64 Athlon 3000+
* 1024MB Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 PC3200
* Ati Radeon 9600Pro
* Creative SB Live! Value
* Windows XP Service Pack 2

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

reset your preferences.

[Just1nCase]

Thanks for the reply.

I reseted my preferences and cache files by going to the start menu, but the problem is still occurring. Any other way of solving this problem?

[DJ]

Are you over clocking Video or CPU?

Does this happen on all drives?

What does Messages say?

[TheFlynn]

After running the update, I'm not getting audio from several files that were fine previousely. I tried rolling back to a previous instalation, but no luck...

[Just1nCase]

Are you over clocking Video or CPU?

Does this happen on all drives?

What does Messages say?

My video card isn't overclocked, but my CPU is slightly overclocked.

Yes, I tried re-installing on my C:\ and onto my other partitions, but I'm still getting the same problem

Here is what the log is saying:

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-40983)

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-40277)

main warning: resampling stopped after 12474912 usec (drift: 31163)

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-40661)

main warning: buffer is 71657 in advance, triggering downsampling

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-40463)

main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (-40027)

Any idea what's wrong?

[DJ]

STOP overclocking! It screws with timing.

The question relating to drives was related to where the files existed and NOT where VLC exists.

[Just1nCase]

STOP overclocking! It screws with timing.

The question relating to drives was related to where the files existed and NOT where VLC exists.

This is weird, because it was working perfectly fine with my "slightly" overclocked PC until now.

The video files I want to play exist in a separate partition away from the partition where the VLCPlayer is installed.

[DJ]

This would not be a partition issue but it mat be a drive issue, like DMA settings.

Messages indicate sync problems or lack of control from program to sound card.

You could try the "Win32 waveOut extension output" to see if the problem is better or worse. If there is no change I would suspect DMA settings for your drives. If there is a change I would suspect the audio drivers or some sound cards do not like the float32 option but this generally shows up as distortion and NOT skipping.

BTW What is the format and container that is giving you problems?

[Tobimaro]

STOP overclocking! It screws with timing.

The question relating to drives was related to where the files existed and NOT where VLC exists.

Being a new person to this forum who is having a similar problem, how can you find out if you are overclocking your CPU? I know a bit about computers, but this is a mystery to me.

I did reset my preferences, but I too had this problem. The last time this happened when I got the latest Quicktime program. When I reset to an earlier model, I stopped having problems with the audio of that program.

And I rechecked with the manufacturer of my computer and found out that I have the latest in their audio codices.

Any help is appreciated.

[DJ]

Look at a DirectX Diagnostic or System Information as these utilities report CPU frequency.

But you should know if you have changed settings in Bios or used a utility to do this.

VLC does not uses QT's codecs nor does it install any DLLs on you system. It is self contained and uses it's own libraries to decode and encode media files. So the program in question would need to change your system somehow for VLC to be effected.