Comment 6 for bug 402018

I have added the PPA, but as of this evening a new version of libasound2 was just pushed down. I still have the issue and still do not have a pulseaudio option in vlc.

$ sudo apt-get install libasound2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libasound2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.

$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 1.0.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.0.1-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

The choppiness I experience seems to be happening at the beginning of the file, not sure if it's a buffering issue or what, the number of Lost buffers is not consistent other than some are lost on each played file, usually near the beginning.