Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sat Feb 7 17:31:58 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:30 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Why others, Karl for example have no problem with vlc on Intrepid
> though, is a 
> mystery, 

Me too. As for Karl, I filter his posts and don't trust a word in his
problem and non-problem statements alike.

> but we all have different hardware of course.

I think you have hit the nail on the head. You might want to try and
disable PulseAudio, then set vlc to use the ALSA sound system instead.
PulseAudio is known to have problems on some pretty common hardware.





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