white noise in vlc (Solved)

[kapil]

since a week i am getting white noise + ( the stream music / video sound )
while using vlc.. is anyone else facing the same problem?
i searched i bit.. ubuntu natty also has same problem it seems..
but that is because of pulse audio and they claim it goes when switched to alsa.

[ubuntuku]

Re: white noise in vlc

Yeah I’ve had nothing but trouble with pulseaudio. Pulseaudio and gstreamer have a bad habit of locking the audio device, and this has become worse in natty due to kded4/notification bug. So I recommend everyone using natty to remove pulseaudio, install phonon xine backend:

sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-xine

and set it as prefer backend:

kcmshell4 kcm_phonon

[Snowhog]

Re: white noise in vlc

Pulseaudio and gstreamer have a bad habit of locking the audio device,...

Well, I haven't experienced any problems with Pulseaudio and the Phonon Gstreamer Backend. All sound works perfectly, in all applications, including DVD audio and CD Audio, on my laptop.

[kapil]

Re: white noise in vlc

@Snowhog: even in vlc?
@ubuntuku: thanks.. i will try that and report back

[kapil]

Re: white noise in vlc

It turns out as the common problem for many users..
and here is the solution:
open vlc>Tools>Preferences>Audio>Output Module>change to ALSA

yey

[lcorken]

Re: white noise in vlc (Solved)

Thanks guys. That fixed my VLC also.

Last week VLC had a lot of white noise. Today I tried it again before remove PulseAudio. The noise wasn't there but after a few minutes CPU went to 100%, sound stopped, VLC crashed after gobbling most of SWAP.

I then removed PulseAudio as ubuntuku suggested. VLC has been working fine now for several hours.

I don't use the now nefarious skype and can't think of any other reason to dog the system with PulseAudio.

Thanks.
Ken.