Sound problems on vlc and youtube

[xitorres]

Hi, I have so really bad problems with sound using VLC and sometimes youtube too. It not happens with SMPlayer.
The problem is about a disturbing noise while using the program, its horrible and VLC becomes useless.

It happens with update 5, meanwhile i have been using update 4 if have not had problems.

Sry for my bad english i try to do my best.

If i dont find how to fix this problem i will be forced to unistall Linux Mint Debian Edition, and y dont want to do it...

Thanks for help

[Zyzz]

Does the weird sound occure all the time?

I have a similar problem but only when I skip forward or backward (with Shift + Arrow left/right).
I tried resetting vlc but it doesn't help.

A quick work around for me is moving the mouse. Can that be related?

[xitorres]

Hi,
In Youtube happens hardly ever but in VLC always. It dissapears if i wait 10 or 20 or 30 seconds and dissapers too if i open other VLC file without close the first one.
I tried reinstalling VLC and reinstalling lmde and the weird sound continues there...

[Kaetemi]

Getting distorted sound in VLC as well on my netbook since 14.

[heiowge]

I'm getting this in VLC. I find playing with the volume control sometimes sorts it, but not always.

[andy1m]

I have the same problem. Sometimes I adjusted the mixer and the problem gone.

In VLC sound preferences, change the output module to ALSA Audio Output.

This solved my problem in VLC, but I still can't enable alert and start up sound.

[ZenMiser2]

Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Kudos to the team for an awesome os, it was the first os that made me love linux.

[pjorge1036]

In VLC sound preferences, change the output module to ALSA Audio Output.
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Thanks, this fixed the problem for me!

[Zyzz]

I found another fix:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=920549

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Try adding tsched=0 to the load-module module-udev-detect line in /etc/pulse/default.pa so it reads:
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

Problem with that is that I have huge input lags in games like UrbanTerror.

I try the also thing now.