Finally decided on buying a new camera and went for the Nikon Coolpix P900. It was released in 2015, so I expected everything to be stable. Pictures are no problem but playback of first movies almost made me panic.
Sound on VLC is a stuttering noise that hardly resembles the original sound. Got me the latest release of VLC to no avail. Then I discovered that the Windows 10 mediaplayer (version 12.0.17134.1067) has no trouble at all. Mediaplayer only says the audio stream is 1536kbps and sampled at 48 kHz. VLC says the audiocodec is 'sowt'. Looking further this would be an Apple Quicktime format.
Is there a fix for this ? It is ever so rare that I stumble on a media file that cannot be played by VLC.