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VLC and Elisa (music player) skip while playing MP3s (self.linux4noobs)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by clay_pidgin to c/[email protected]

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Howdy,

I have been experiencing annoying brief skips, like on a bumped CD player, with my media players. Replaying the same song or same part of the song does not have the skips, so I don't think it's the files' fault.

Had the same problem in Elisa and VLC. I don't watch much local video, but streaming audio and video doesn't have this problem for me.

Watching the system monitor I see I have 10 Gb of free memory and only 5-10% CPU utilization.

System is Debian 12 with KDE and Xwindows. (Wayland doesn't like my Nvidia 1070)

Any suggestion for how to troubleshoot would be appreciated. I tried downloading more memory but that didn't help!

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[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I shall try!

They're just MP3s, but I wouldn't know what kind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

those should be pretty well optimized at this point. that leaves basically the drivers if you have issues on a different player. do you have issues with audio on say youtube?

[–] clay_pidgin 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not that I have noticed. I do watch music videos, so I think I would have heard it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)