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Choppy sound
Asus motherboard (M5A78L-M). Via sound.
The audio is choppy, as though the jack were loose. Audio cuts out and in. (Somewhere I saw the term "helicopter sound". It is a bit like that. Or sometimes there seems to be one channel that's faint while the other is normal. I actually tried swapping out the board because I have a spare, but that didn't solve it. I have an identical board on another computer that's fine. Both have motherboard drivers installed. I'm not sure what else to look at. I've tested with different speakers. (This is the box that I thought might have a faulty PS, but it turns out that problem was just a difference between versions of HWMonitor. The newer version seems to show erratic numbers.) |
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On 2/7/2017 1:37 PM, Mayayana wrote:
Asus motherboard (M5A78L-M). Via sound. The audio is choppy, as though the jack were loose. Audio cuts out and in. (Somewhere I saw the term "helicopter sound". It is a bit like that. Or sometimes there seems to be one channel that's faint while the other is normal. I actually tried swapping out the board because I have a spare, but that didn't solve it. I have an identical board on another computer that's fine. Both have motherboard drivers installed. I'm not sure what else to look at. I've tested with different speakers. (This is the box that I thought might have a faulty PS, but it turns out that problem was just a difference between versions of HWMonitor. The newer version seems to show erratic numbers.) What is the source of the sound? (URI, CD, DVD, or what file extension?) What application are you using? -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Paraphrasing Mark Twain, who was quoting someone else: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and alternative truths. |
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"David E. Ross" wrote
| What is the source of the sound? (URI, CD, DVD, or what file extension?) | What application are you using? | I'm glad you asked that. I was using VLC and Firefox, but maybe FF had the VLC plugin. It was VLC 2.15 and your question reminded me that I'd had trouble with that update. I uninstalled and put in v. 2.05. Now it's fine. I can't believe I forgot about having had the problem before! Thanks. |
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In message , Mayayana
writes: "David E. Ross" wrote | What is the source of the sound? (URI, CD, DVD, or what file extension?) | What application are you using? | I'm glad you asked that. I was using VLC and Firefox, but maybe FF had the VLC plugin. It was VLC 2.15 and your question reminded me that I'd had trouble with that update. I uninstalled and put in v. 2.05. Now it's fine. I can't believe I forgot about having had the problem before! Thanks. Ah, I have had similar under XP - the later version (2.1x) wouldn't play some video files that the 2.0x version would. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Humans landed on the moon before we put wheels on our luggage. |
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On 2/7/2017 2:48 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"David E. Ross" wrote | What is the source of the sound? (URI, CD, DVD, or what file extension?) | What application are you using? | I'm glad you asked that. I was using VLC and Firefox, but maybe FF had the VLC plugin. It was VLC 2.15 and your question reminded me that I'd had trouble with that update. I uninstalled and put in v. 2.05. Now it's fine. I can't believe I forgot about having had the problem before! Thanks. Windows 7 Utilmate SP1 (x64) VLC 2.2.4 I have not seen this problem. In your case, it could be any of the following: * a failure of your Internet connection to deliver broadband speed * a slow or impaired processor in your PC * a corrupted download of the VLC installer * attempting to use an x64 version on an x32 PC or (much less likely) vice-versa -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Paraphrasing Mark Twain, who was quoting someone else: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and alternative truths. |
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"Mayayana" schreef in bericht
news "David E. Ross" wrote | What is the source of the sound? (URI, CD, DVD, or what file extension?) | What application are you using? | I'm glad you asked that. I was using VLC and Firefox, but maybe FF had the VLC plugin. It was VLC 2.15 and your question reminded me that I'd had trouble with that update. I uninstalled and put in v. 2.05. Now it's fine. I can't believe I forgot about having had the problem before! Thanks. The current version is VLC 2.24. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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"David E. Ross" wrote
| Windows 7 Utilmate SP1 (x64) | VLC 2.2.4 | | I have not seen this problem. In your case, it could be any of the | following: | | * a failure of your Internet connection to deliver broadband speed | | * a slow or impaired processor in your PC | | * a corrupted download of the VLC installer | | * attempting to use an x64 version on an x32 PC or (much less likely) | vice-versa | All of those can probably be ruled out, though I can't say for certain that I ever tried two different downloads. It was v. 2.15 32-bit, on Win7-64, playing mp4 videos locally. (MP3's seemed OK.) But the exact same thing happened on my XP machine. (Unfortunately I didn't remember at first.) The one common factor I can think of is that both have the same onboard Via audio. But the problem was gone once I went back to v. 2.05. Maybe there was a problem in 2.15 that got fixed. Maybe it's a Via conflict. In any case, 2.05 does everything fine so I have no need to update. |
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"Linea Recta" wrote
| The current version is VLC 2.24. | Yes. Thanks. I had v. 2.15 on hand. I always keep copies when I download and rarely concern myself with getting the very latest. (I'm using Firefox 36 currently because I got tired of needing to add new extensions to fix things the Mozilla people break in their crazed, high-speed update cycle.) This has been an interesting experience in software updates. I wasted a lot of time chasing two red herrings that I thought were hardware problems: 1) VLC 2.15 playing choppy sound. 2) The most recent v. 1.3 of HWMonitor displaying entirely different voltage readings from v. 1.1.5 that I had been using. I found very little info when searching for "Windows choppy sound" but quickly found lots of discussions when I searched for "VLC choppy sound". Yet the problems seem to vary by version and hardware, so maybe it's a hardware compatibility issue. In any case, v. 2.05 works fine for me. And I can't even find a link to a versions change log at the Videolan site. It seems highly unlikely that there's something critical in v. 2.2.4. |
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On 2/8/2017 6:27 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"David E. Ross" wrote | Windows 7 Utilmate SP1 (x64) | VLC 2.2.4 | | I have not seen this problem. In your case, it could be any of the | following: | | * a failure of your Internet connection to deliver broadband speed | | * a slow or impaired processor in your PC | | * a corrupted download of the VLC installer | | * attempting to use an x64 version on an x32 PC or (much less likely) | vice-versa | All of those can probably be ruled out, though I can't say for certain that I ever tried two different downloads. It was v. 2.15 32-bit, on Win7-64, playing mp4 videos locally. (MP3's seemed OK.) But the exact same thing happened on my XP machine. (Unfortunately I didn't remember at first.) The one common factor I can think of is that both have the same onboard Via audio. But the problem was gone once I went back to v. 2.05. Maybe there was a problem in 2.15 that got fixed. Maybe it's a Via conflict. In any case, 2.05 does everything fine so I have no need to update. There was a problem in older versions of VLC that appear fixed in 2.2.4. (It might have been fixed before 2.2.4.) While playing streaming audio from radio stations that broadcast over the Internet, VLC would stop downloading. Instead, it would keep replaying the same set of packets, over and over again. The set of packets would be sufficiently large that the repetition would not be immediately noticed. I read somewhere (possibly at Slashdot) that the next version of VLC will have some very new features. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Paraphrasing Mark Twain, who was quoting someone else: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and alternative truths. |
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"Mayayana" schreef in bericht
news "Linea Recta" wrote | The current version is VLC 2.24. | Yes. Thanks. I had v. 2.15 on hand. I always keep copies when I download and rarely concern myself with getting the very latest. (I'm using Firefox 36 currently because I got tired of needing to add new extensions to fix things the Mozilla people break in their crazed, high-speed update cycle.) This has been an interesting experience in software updates. I wasted a lot of time chasing two red herrings that I thought were hardware problems: 1) VLC 2.15 playing choppy sound. 2) The most recent v. 1.3 of HWMonitor displaying entirely different voltage readings from v. 1.1.5 that I had been using. I found very little info when searching for "Windows choppy sound" but quickly found lots of discussions when I searched for "VLC choppy sound". Yet the problems seem to vary by version and hardware, so maybe it's a hardware compatibility issue. In any case, v. 2.05 works fine for me. And I can't even find a link to a versions change log at the Videolan site. It seems highly unlikely that there's something critical in v. 2.2.4. I think it is a great media player, although it seems to have trouble here playing an ordinary audio CD. Now I'm waiting for a version which supports Chromecast... -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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