Comment 62 for bug 751265

I have this issue on a fresh install of 12.10 AMD 64. Sound was bad from VLC launch.

Like others, this choppiness would eventually go away on it own (see #59) and come back some time later. I could also fix the problem with a pause and then unpause. Moving the mouse (#55) also "seemed" to fix the problem quite often.

I moved VLC from default audio to ALSA and this got rid of the static / echo / choppiness. There was much rejoicing.

However, I then picked up problem #60. This is a somewhat acceptable solution - I usually just use the menu "playback" -> "jump backwards" to fix the problem as this gives a more precise amount of replay and I never encounter the bad audio.

I tried the famous fix #23 and it made things worse. VLC would start with no sound for about 20 seconds. Moving the slider to a new point resulted in the same no audio problem. I backed that out right away.