It is my understanding that the Sound Blaster Audigy also has problems. Try looking at this:
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
Replacement drivers for Creative sound cards
Well, I can confirm that the "choppy playback" problem is gone when audio output is disabled, every media I play is absolutely smooth then
I tried possibly every combination of audio settings, no luck and I'm really not willing to watch any video without sound. I wonder wtf is this sound (creative?) problem...
I really can't explain this but every time I suggest looking at ReClock for more info someone has to down load and try the program and then come back and say it didn't work. ReClock will work with VLC, if you have a few days to play with it to get it to do so, but this requires pooring through the documentation and truly understanding the problem and if this were true you wouldn't be here saying it didn't work. So now I simply say READ the documentation and you will understand the problem without the need to install ReClock. So this is not an endorsement of the program considering most people will never be able to get it to work with VLC.I tried ReClock now, and also checked "Force ReClock to be loaded in place of default DirectSound/Ware renderers", but it made absolutely no difference in VLC. I also tried to find ReClock renderer in VLC sound output settings without luck.
I find also that someone will shut of audio and say that it's fine now so the problem must be VLC. All Digital video is sync to audio and this should give you a clue as to the real problem and state that your test is not valid in leading to a solution other than hardware.Well, I can confirm that the "choppy playback" problem is gone when audio output is disabled, every media I play is absolutely smooth then
I tried possibly every combination of audio settings, no luck and I'm really not willing to watch any video without sound. I wonder wtf is this sound (creative?) problem...
Yes and that led me to the final conclusion that if other players are syncing AV the way it's actually smooth (and, really NO out-of-sync-lips syndrome here) that it's a problem of VLC.All Digital video is sync to audio and this should give you a clue as to the real problem and state that your test is not valid in leading to a solution other than hardware.
Uh, no, it is "broke". I'm another person with the same problem: have no trouble playing media on other players, but VLC plays back VERY choppy. Make sure to let the world know when the program is all growed up!It's very difficult to fix something that's not broke. So you will need to do this from your end at the source of the real problem!Come on, lets fix this soon!
When video has jitter the issue is always the sound card. The easy test is take away or shut off sound then there is no sync or control for the video. All digital video is sync to audio. If the audio is not excepting control or is not controlling the video well there will be jitter.
Have you tried updating your audio drivers?
Have you tried changing the audio output module?
If it works well with windows older method of rendering audio, generally points to the drivers, but it may also be DirectX related. Try updating DirectX runtime.
All players use DirectX differently thus accounting for variances in payers. But if you haven't noticed CPU usage is the lowest of all players using VLC. Try playing a commercial DVD (NOT sitting on a menu ) then look at CPU usage. Then do the same thing with MPC or WMP. This should be the picture worth 1k words. For the user that can't get anything good enough, use MPlayer as it's does not enforce sync well at all. Then you can complain to them when you have lipsync problems.
I would suggest searching ReClock on the web for more information on this topic, but some fool will always come back and say the program doesn't work which is NOT why I sent them there. Yes it will work with VLC if you have 2 or 3 days to play with it or really understand what you are doing, but the majority of users will never get this far. So I don't recommend the program. Beside this really shouldn't be necessary if you have a decent audio card with recent drivers.
Really WMV3 or WVC1 is a different issue. Playback of these formats is Windows only and uses the Direct Show codecs. VLC is a packet based player that uses its own libraries to decode media files. At the request of many users an accommodation was made and it has never worked as well as WMP for these formats.
Starting with VLC 0.8.6 WMV3 and WVC1 will be supported in VLC directly, using ffmpeg. As of Oct 31 06 this is still not working properly.
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