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VLC and Elisa (music player) skip while playing MP3s (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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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@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I'll check on the second. On the OP, is there anything I can do? A better media player? Surely everyone isn't just putting up with this!

Thank you for the reply.

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

im not too familiar with debian, so its hard to say. could be any number of issues: the type of encoding your media is in, the media player, the kernel, drivers.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That's not too encouraging, I've got to say!

Thank you.

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Try a different player. elisa is built on top of vlc's codec library. see if the problem goes away. if the file's format is rare i'd try to convert it to a new format and see if the problem is resolved.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I shall try!

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

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month 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@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)

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