Bug#784640: vlc: no audio when network swing

[Michael Tokarev]

Control: tag -1 - moreinfo + confirmed upstream patch fixed-upstream

On Sun, 10 May 2015 21:26:14 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On 2015-05-07 13:47:58, Pol Hallen wrote:
> > Package: vlc
> > Version: 2.2.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > using vlc by samba, when network swings (wifi network) often vlc stops to play audio (but there's a progress of audio file).
> 
> How do you access the file on the samba share? Is it directly through vlc's
> samba plugin or via a cifs or gvfs mount?
> 
> Is the situation better if you increase the buffer size?

This is a known upstream bug, fixed quite some time ago.
The problem is when there's any delay with the source
(often observed on a wifi network), audio stops.

Here's the upstream ticked about this:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/15046

Upstream commit 887bda11d23665416bd9403151ad1acced68b267 fixes the issue.

Please fix this in stable too, I have to recompile vlc
locally due to this bug :)

Thanks,

/mjt