Hi,

I just had the new VLC (1.1.8 the luggage) and something weird happens: it makes a shrieking sound someswere in my PC. The PC has a SATA drive. Dont know if that's a detail/clue.
It happens when I listen to on-line radio stations or listen to local MP3's.
Anyone has the same effect? It's not "really" annoying, just want to know what happens and what I can do about it.

Tnx

Thor
Edit : Solved: I've read some docs and set the output to the proper setting (for me) : default. I love Linux!

Hi,

Glad you've got it solved and for sharing what worked for you. Off the Zero Reply List. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric

You're welcome! It's great to give something back instead of "leeching" all the time

And yes, I love Linux! The only thing running here...

I still want to know, what made that shrieking sound?

The speaker?

Kind regards,

Eric

As in the PC speaker? That would be hilarious

No, I think it was something that was set wrong (I tend to play around with settings, not clever, but hey) and it seemed to be some more-than-normal harddrisk activity...it is a SATA disk, my first one, so I dont really know what they sound like.
My box is a Compaq, eh, maybe the piece of *** has to be put on a pension...dunnow...it rattles, then is shrieks (when I use some stuff, the VLC among them), then it hums...
VLC still does that, the first seconds, then it's gone. Dunnow... :/
But, it was not the PC speaker. My setup does'nt come near the PC speaker...
I ran the VLC of the console and did'nt get anything weird from the thing, so, it's okay now, I guess...

well, occasionally I can get some odd sounds from my drives as well. It sounds like there's an miniature 3,5" disk in there but I don't really bother. Anyways, if it's an old drive, you could perhaps check for bad sectors.

It's a new one, but, as long as it keeps running it's okay...I just worried, that's all. My fsck does indicate 2.0% non-contiguous...but that seems to be normal (for my distro), maybe that's the action right there. Anyway, after a few seconds it stopped.

On a side note, I do have to quit messing around with my settings...

Additional Edit : the VLC (1.9.1) seems to be plagued with a (horrible) bug, sometimes crashing and taking the whole system down with it, causing a cold/hard shutdown and fsck at reboot...
Bugs have been submitted (dd 24 apr 2011)