Bug#803879: vlc: audio doesn't work with some codecs

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Monday 02 November 2015 22:14:10 Manolo Díaz wrote:
> [00000000013657f8] alsa audio output error: cannot set buffer
> duration: Invalid argument
> [00000000013657f8] core audio output error:
> module not functional

That´s a fatal error from the ALSA driver: 
snd_pcm_hw_parms_set_buffer_time_near failed.

This is not something that VLC can work around; the audio output always must 
have a buffer duration. It looks to me that your ALSA driver is buggy, as ALSA 
functions post-fixed with "near" really should never fail.

Please reassign.

Meanwhile consider using PulseAudio to work around it.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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