Comment 31 for bug 103025

I would just like to add that the "hw:0,0" ALSA device or the OSS output module both do fix the crackling problem but unfortunately it's only a partial solution.
When using either of these solutions you can only have sound in only one application at the time. What I mean by that is when you play a media file in VLC and open another one in a new VLC window or a different app (Firefox for example) there won't be any sound.
You first have to close the original VLC window to get any sound back.

This has been discussed on the forums and it seems everyone has this problem. Seems like the only real solution for now is to turn down the default volume in VLC although this is far from ideal.

To be honest I don't really understand why this bug's importance isn't set to high :), it makes VLC as a media player unusable imo.