Bug#486220: vlc: All sounds have weird distosion.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:52:14PM +0100, Christophe Mutricy wrote:
> Le Sat 14 Jun 08 à 14:01 +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
> > Everything I try to play with it sounds just horrible.  It sounds like
> > it stops and start playing the music a few times per second or
> > something.  But I have a feeling this only affects certain frequency
> > ranges.
> > 
> > I have this problem with all sources of music I've tried like ogg, mp3,
> > cdda, wav.
> 
> 
> Could you:
> delete the preferences (rm -rf ~/.vlc/*)
> try various audio output module (-A alsa, -A oss, -A esd)
> attach a full log (vlc -vvv)

I think it's related to vlc's weird volume control.  If you look
at the indicator it seems to be set to 50%.  And I see no good
reason for the volume to be at 50% so I increased it.

If you go and look at the dialog it says 256.  Which might make
sense if 255 is the highest you can set on the interface.  But
it makes no sense at all from a user interface point of view.

It seems that if you set it to 512 it indicates 100%, and you
can even change it to 1024.

Distorsion can be normal once you go over 100% (256?)

I see no reason why one wants to go over 100% in a media player.


Kurt