VLC media player sound problems in 12.10

Question

When I try playing .m4v files in VLC the sound track doesn't play correctly, and I get a kind of buzzing staticy distorted version of the actual sound, I'd really appreciate some help as I don't really like totem and XBMC doesn't seem to be working either.

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me

Solution 2

I've had the same problems with VLC sound playback in various formats. Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to Pulseaudio audio output.
Quit VLC & relaunch.

Hope it helps!

Solution 3

For me 3 things (Easier than other options I could try) worked. You could either:

• Change the Sound Preferences in VLC by going to Tools --> Preferences --> Sound and changing the Default from one option to another. For example Alsa to Pulseaudio or Pulseaudio to Alsa are the most common ones.

• Try pausing the movie for 2 to 5 seconds, then unpause it. The sound should come immediately of after 1 or 2 seconds without the horrible static.

• If you are using HDMI or outputting it to a TV/Monitor with Speakers and already checked all the Sound settings in your TV or Monitor, try changing the Sound Preferences in Ubuntu:

  

Solution 4

Solution #23 worked for me for 2 computers for skype and vlc that made problems with sound: pulseAudioBugWebSite

The solution is to change the lines in /etc/pulse/default.pa. I've changed this line:

load-module module-udev-detect

to this:

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

reboot. It worked for me!

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Comments

[Lucio]

Do you have a screenshoot of that menu? If you add an image (of the Preferences menu), will be more easy to the users to set the configuration as you said.