Sound in VLC is out of sync

11.04 sound vlc

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VLC and audio lag issues are perhaps more common than they really should be. Under Linux, pulse-audio seems to be a common thread.

However there doesnt appear to be a magic "fix" to cure all.

So here are a few things you could try:

Check that you haven't changed the Audio synchronisation: Tools - Track Synchronisation should be set to zero
Check that other preferences havent affected audio tracking: Tools > Preferences and click the Reset Preferences button
Use Alsa instead of Pulse-Audio for output: From the VLC menu, choose Tools > Preferences > Audio. Change the Output from Default to Alsa
If using Natty - revert to using interrupt driven mode instead of time-scheduled mode

modify the following line in /etc/pulse/default.pa

load-module module-udev-detect

with :

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

Use Alsa instead of Pulse-Audio for output: From the VLC menu, choose Tools > Preferences > Audio. Change the Output from Default to Alsa ^ This works

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Alvar

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Alvar over 1 year

After a minute or so all my sounds in different videos and formats gets late.

I've tried to reinstall VLC but it didn't help. Please help I can't play any videos because of that.

It's late about 1-2 seconds.

All of the videos work perfectly in movie player!
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  Have you tried resetting vlc, either internally or via a purge?
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  no, so please tell me how to!
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  To purge do sudo apt-get purge vlc and then reinstall. You might want to purge other vlc packages before reinstall too, e.g. vlc-data. I'm not sure if this helps but it will remove vlc as well as its configuration files.
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  To reset vlc choose Tools - Settings - Reset settings or the like.
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  no that didn't work...
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  @Alvar How did reset work?
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  don't know how to. or what it is?
- Admin almost 13 years
  
  ALSA worked for me for most videos. I found one video of all that I tried that had no audio after the switch.
Alvar almost 13 years

this isn't a fix this is a workaround, and it's not that good...
Jeffrywith1e almost 13 years

There were a bunch of VLC updates today. Hopefully that'll fix the problem.