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I'm using VLC 1.1.9 but as I know this happen to all previous versions as well. When using VLC for playing audio files (music for example), it doesn't play the first 500 millisecond (0,5 second) of each track. Windows Media Player instead, plays the track exactly at the start. This is a problem for shortly sound files, if they have a very short duration, you will not hear none.

Anybody knows how to solve this? This is weird that this happens for a great player like VLC...

Try using VLC 1.2.0 from Nightly Build of VLC

Thanks Jean-Baptiste Kempf for your reply, OK, but why this happen to the newer versions of VLC? I thought this is a defect in VLC, as I said Windows Media Player for example, reproduces the audio files exactly from the beginning. Will this be corrected in future versions?

THANKS

Did you read my post?

Sorry... OK, THANKS! I though you said VLC 1.1.2...

Tested with an mp3 file with the latest VLC version at this moment (VLC 1.2.0-git-20110414-0004 Twoflower), downloaded from
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/last/

it have the same defect, VLC jumps a few millisencods from the start...
I'm using XP Professional SP3

a few milliseconds or 0.5s ?

I don't know exactly how many milliseconds it jumps, so it is not exactly 0,5 secs...Sorry about the post topic.
But as I said, VLC 1.2 does the same, it also jumps from the begining, this the only defect I always saw to VLC months ago, if you correct this, VLC will be perfect for playing files!

As an example, sometimes I have extracted all the sounds from a PC game to WAV files, the 80% of these sounds were very short in duration, so if you use VLC to play the folder containing the sound files, that make it hear only a few of them (because the jump), so I always needed to switch to Windows Media Player for example to hear all of them correctly.

So, will this finally fixed in VLC 1.2?

I have the same problem.

Description: When playing very short MP3 files (recordings of foreign language pronunciation) the first few milliseconds are not played.
Seriousness of problem: Critical. This problem makes VLC unusable because the first syllable of every word is dropped, making it impossible to learn the pronunciation of those words.
Workaround: The same MP3 files are played correctly in Media Player.
Platform: Windows XP and VLC 1.1.11 (I am not installing 1.2 since it didn't fix the problem for jomalin).

I will monitor this thread regularly in hope of finding a fix, because I prefer using VLC. I can provide the freely-available MP3 for testing if needed to reproduce the problem.

Use VLC 1.2.0

VLC 1.2.0 does NOT fix the problem.

I tested with 1.2.0 found here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 1014-0004/

The MP3 files are played correctly in Media Player. See details in my previous message.

1.1.x can cut a lot, 1.2 can cut, but way less..

I take it from your answer there are no fixes available for this specific problem. Will there be a bug report opened on this? In the meantime, I'll play those files with another player. Thank you for your time and thanks to all the development team for an otherwise awesome product.

There has been a bug report for this for ages. It is not an easy problem, especially when VLC developers are so few and so not sponsored.

Heyyy after years having this problem... looks fixed in VLC 2.1.0!
Can developers confirm that?

It is not fixed at all.

It is not fixed at all.

No? What needs yet to be fixed? Can you tell me please?

If I knew how to fix it, I'd have fixed it already.

If I knew how to fix it, I'd have fixed it already.

I'm only asking you in what kind of files/formats have you seen/hear VLC jumps some frames? Can you tell me?
Because I have tested it comparing it with Windows Media Player using small sound files and I don't see the difference.

It does not depend on the file format or the codec. It happens all the time, though usually you do not notice.

There has been a bug report for this for ages. It is not an easy problem, especially when VLC developers are so few and so not sponsored.

Can you tell me the bug report URL please? I want to track this highly important bug.

THANKS

I've had this problem with VLC for Mac for years. With some versions of VLC, the amount of audio skipped at the beginning of a file seems to be less than others. I've periodically researched fixes, but nothing works. The current version of VLC seems to have it worse than it's ever been, and given that no one seems to have an actual fix yet, I'm finally motivated to say something about it. It's really aggrivating to open a song and have it start several notes in. No other media player I've ever used has done this. Is VLC ever going to fix the problem? It's an enormous one.

I tried updating my VLC to 3.0.8, and after playing a few songs, I don't notice any audio skip anymore.

I I have vlc 3.0.8 on ubuntu, and I regret to say that I am still getting skips at starts of tracks. I have been experimenting with randomly generating .m3u files then using vlc --play-and-exit foo random_items.m3u to play them. Not every track skips at start but a lot do. My first completely uninformed thought is that the player tries to start playing before the buffer loads. But that sounds so far-fetched as to be nearly impossible. Anyway, I think it is still a problem. I just found this thread in one of my occasional sweeps of the web to see if there is a solution.

JR