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I am trying to preview a download in EMule. The file is not completely downloaded yet, but I am able to preview what's there, except that the sound just cuts off completely and doesn't come back on. Then I can close the dashboard easily, but the screen stays up and won't close. I have to close it in Task Manager, and even then, it doesn't close immediately. Then I can preview the file again in VLC, but the sound will cut out again, but not at the same place in the file. I'm hoping this is a common problem and someone can help me out with an explanation/solution.
Thanks

Bill

I'm having same kind of difficulties with the player. I've got alsa 0.9.7 as a sound system (kernel-2.6.1-version) and a Hoontech DSP24 Value card in the system.

In fact, every file I try to play, skips sound. It doesn't matter do I use some P2P-software's preview option, the sound just skips... buffer overrun maybe, or something ?

I would be really greatful too if somebody could help me out.

Mikko
Finland

I tought that why don't I try to diagnose the problem a little further by myself, before bothering more everybody else.

First thing that popped into my mind was to disable for example SDL, just to see how the program reacts... but I couldn't found a switch how to disable one particular module from VLC...

Am I just being blind (as usual ? ) or do we have a new added feature here ?


Mikko

You can't just disable one module, but you can select which module to use for a specific tast. This is all available in the preferences window.

Any logging mechanism for debug ?

Open the messages window (from the View menu in the GUI) and restart the stream. You will get all debug messages.

I cannot get the sound to work in preview mode, also when I use the taskmanager to shut down vlc after it crashes, this causes my pc to die instantly, and then restart.