Severely Stuttering DTS/DD Audio

[VLC_help]

And I don't think any fixes will before atmo returns.

[Cirrus]

This problem describes exactly what I am having too. Realtek too. Waveout in use, since I don't get any speech in DD with directsound. I am using the latest 0.9.9.

[Seymour_Bootay]

When trying to play digital audio over spdif (optical) I get terrible stuttering. When playing non-digital (stero sound) over the spdif it works fine. I am using windows vista business 32-bit. I started out with a Dynex 5.1 soundcard (envy chipset) and thought the stutter may be related to it so I updated its drivers...still stutter. I then "aquired" a sound blaster audigy 2 platnium....still stutters......updated the drivers......still stutters. I tried the win32 waveout option (remembered to shutdown vlc and restart after saving).....still stutters....tried the newest nightie again with the win32 waveout ....still stutters.....tried AC3 filter still stutters. I have recently purchased a chicken to sacrifice in a vodoo ritual to the DTS gods but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. I am trying to have vlc pass the digital signal to my external decoder (a/v reciever). Any help would be much appreciated and thank eveyone who has worked so hard on vlc it is truely an awesome player.

[VLC_help]

DirectX SPDIF should work better in 1.1.0 release.
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 69224.html

[Seymour_Bootay]

Tried DirectX sound like you suggested .....still studders, Thank you for the suggestion though.

[korador]

Hey,

I've got the same issue with playing dd/dts over S/PDIF.
I've also tried to set the audio-output to "Win32 waveOut extension output" and I tried to set the Audio Device for the "waveOut" Option to my S/PDIF device. Without these settings the sound stutters like hell. With these settings the sound is playing well but interrupts every 2 or 3 seconds (The AV-Receiver loses signal for about one millisecond or so).

With Windows Media Player 12 and AC3Filter the whole thing works without any interrupts (5.1 dd/dts and 2ch sound). But I don't like WMP.

System config:
* Windows 7 Professional
* M-Audio Audiophile 2496 with newest drivers from M-Audio
* No Video issues
* No issues with 2 channel sound over S/PDIF
* VLC versions tried from 0.8.2 to 1.0.4 (nightly build)

Any ideas?

[VLC_help]

Try 1.1.0 nightlies.

[korador]

hey thanks,

the vlc-1.1.0-git-20091226-0002-win32 is working for me with S/PDIF. But there is another issue now.
The fullscreen mode isn't working anymore. Everytime I try to get in fullscreen mode it looks like this:

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1992/23021317.jpg
or
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2527/39095597.jpg

[VLC_help]

It will be fixed eventually =) But in meantime you can try different video output modules and see if one of those works any better.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.0 ... _output.3F

[Seymour_Bootay]

I tried vlc-1.1.0-git-20091226-0002-win32 and mine still stutters, I would be happy with the full screen problem. I will try the next couple of nightlies and then will post back the results tonite. Thanks for the help.

[VLC_help]

Seymour_Bootay: you changed audio output module to DirectX one with 1.1.0?

[Seymour_Bootay]

Yes I tried it with Directx and with win32 wave both stuttered

[VLC_help]

Does it help if you disable video?

[Seymour_Bootay]

I tried disabling video and still she stutters sorry for taking so long to repley back I had a project I had to finish for my Didgital Logic class.

[VLC_help]

What does Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) say when you start the playback? (open messages before video)