Pausing lags; resuming has no audio

[Adam Porter]

After upgrading from Oneiric to Precise, VLC has regressed. When I pause a video, the picture freezes instantly, but the audio continues for several seconds. When I unpause, the video resumes, but the audio doesn't resume at all. If I skip backwards in the video, the audio plays again. This happens for every format I've tried to play, including MKV, AVI, and FLV. This never happened before upgrading to Precise.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: vlc 2.0.1-4
Uname: Linux 3.3.6-pf-adp i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 12 14:49:53 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-06 (6 days ago)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

You have probably selected the ALSA audio output. Reset your preferences, or set the audio output back to default.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Err, sorry, ALSA should not exhibit that bug either. Only volume is delayed with ALSA.

This might be https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5825 which is already fixed upstream in VLC 2.1.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

A simple work around is to reduce the caching value. The default value should be short enough.

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

I haven't changed the audio output module--it's on "Default." But it
does appear to be the bug you linked. I had also set the File buffer
to 3000 ms at some time in the past to work around another issue.
Thanks.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git;a=commit;h=c87880bc4e5a90febbfc348dfb01150a5d113632

[Adam Porter (alphapapa)]

Thank you for fixing this bug.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont
<email address hidden> wrote:
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git;a=commit;h=c87880bc4e5a90febbfc348dfb01150a5d113632
>
> ** Also affects: vlc via
>   http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5825
>   Importance: Unknown
>       Status: Unknown
>
> ** Changed in: vlc
>    Milestone: None => 2.0.2
>
> ** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Tags added: patch-accepted-upstream
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.0.2-1

---------------
vlc (2.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Edward Wang ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #679625, #664279, LP: #689122, #936488,
    #942126, #971106, #972615, #973051, #987231, #995003, #998538).
    - Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow. Thanks to Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen
  * Add the crystalhd plugin to the vlc distribution.
  * libcaca_plugin.so now depends on X11 in this release, so it must
    be installed under vlc (versus vlc-nox).

  [ Reinhard Tartler ]
  * Urgency set to medium because a security issue is fixed in this release

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Add new plugins to vlc-nox:
    - crystalhd (Linux amd64 and i386 only)
    - directfb
    - fbosd (Linux only)
    - omxil (Linux only)
  * Add build dependencies for new plugins.
  * Add new symbols to libvlccore5.
  * Switch to debhelper 8.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:39:41 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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