Package: vlc
Version: 2.0.3-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I installed Debian Wheezy with KDE... it included the phonon vlc backend by
deafult, every KDE system sound sounded like shit.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
First I didn't noticed that the problem was VLC, until I installed Clemetine
and I installed the gstreamer phonon backend as well... kicked out the shitty
phonon-vlc backend, and vuala! no cracking sound in KDE system sounds.
So, from time to time when I play something with this overrated piece of crap
(VLC), I have a disgusting noise at the beggining of anything; a flv video, an
avi video, mpg, etc... even with theora and vorbis media, I still hear the
crackling for about 30 seconds to 1 minute and a half.
So I thought that the problem was pulseaudio, as always, everybody blames
pulseaudio for sound problems, they maybe right; but this time is not
pulseaudio, I had changed the output to ALSA, and I heard a worse crackling and
lasted more time, so I set pulseaudio back.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Disgusting crackling sound at the first 30-120 seconds of anything just with
VLC.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
To hear a clean sound as I do with everything that uses GStreamer.
* Would you upgrade your Debian distribution?, that's because a newer
package of vlc exists in unstable, and the bug may not be present there...
No, even If I am crazy I will never upgrade to an unstable distribution, so why
you release a stable distribution, if nobody will use it?.
* Do you have any additional information?
Yes! of course, this is my Codec:
Codec: VIA VT1708B 8-Ch
This is my sound hardware:
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A/VT8251 HDA Controller (rev
10)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device 1b47
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast TAbort- TAbort-
MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: Data:
Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI
00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 64ns,
L1 1us
ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
Unsupported-
RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+
TransPend+
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency
L0 64ns, L1 1us
ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk-
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
Arb:Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed
Status: InProgress-
VC0:Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
Arb:Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=ff
Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
And this is the module state of VLC, it looks good:
vlc -vvv --color --list
VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
[0xa8d108] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.0.3 Twoflower
[0xa8d108] main libvlc debug: Copyright © 1996-2012 VLC authors and VideoLAN
[0xa8d108] main libvlc debug: revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e
[0xa8d108] main libvlc debug: configured with ./configure '--enable-static' '
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-
size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror
=format-security' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' '--config-cache' '--disable-
maintainer-mode' '--disable-silent-rules' '--disable-update-check' '--enable-
fast-install' '--prefix=/usr' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-nox' '--
sysconfdir=/etc' '--with-binary-version=5'
