Hi,
I search through the board and saw many messages relating to sound chipping problems and freezing but nothing seems to match mine.
I have a new PC for 2 months with Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit, my graphic card is a Sapphire AMD HD7850 and the sound is provided by the motherboard Realtek chips. The motherboard is a Gigabyte X79-UD3.
I have updated all my drivers to the most current version but to no avail.
With the current version of VLC, in a lot of the videos I am playing, the video will start, the sound will be 'horrible" with lots of cracks and chipping and the picture will stop and go.... then VLC will freeze and the only way out is to kill the program.
I have tried playing with the Video Option (OpenGL and Direct X) and with the Sound (Win32 Wave Out and Direct X) but with mixed results, the programs still retains most of the problems.
In desesperation, I reverted back to the version 1.1.9 of the program with the Audio and Video set to default and the program plays all my files perfectly so it has to do with some incompatibility with the current version.
Hoping this will help out sort out the problem cause I love this program....
Regards,
Alain Tessier