Bug#624451: vlc: Audio quality (of mpeg radio stream) degraded beyond acceptable.

[Carlo Wood]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:52:59 +0200
Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at chewa.net> wrote:

> Le Thu 28 Apr 11 à 16:21 +0200, Carlo Wood a écrit :
> > 
> > After an 'apt-get upgrade' (which upgraded vlc), the sound of
> > my radio station (a premium paid-for 'MPEG 1.0 layer III, 256
> > kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo' stream), started to sound HORRIBLE.
> 
> What was the previous version ?
> Try vlc -A alsa  and vlc -A pulse

The previous version was 1.1.3-1squeeze1

I just reinstalled vlc and tried with -A alsa and -A pulse,
and they sound the same and really really bad.

Having 400 euro headphones,
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>

PS I would be able to hear this on 50 euro headphones too ;)