My system is trying to assassinate me using sound
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vlc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Most modern video formats that I find on the interwebs, when I try to play them with VLC, the sound is such a loud white noise, that I thought maybe it is an assassination attempt on my life.
Totem refuses to play, claiming an error loading supporting library.
Attached is a recording of what it sounds like.
This started happening some one month ago or so.
Until then, I've been enjoying all kinds of videos and their audio without issues.
Likely not a VLC issue, although it would be nice if players could protect me from such atrocities.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc-nox 2.2.2-5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Aug 16 21:51:33 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-12 (2135 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-11-13 (277 days ago)
Here's another report, but with Totem: bug #1613854.