VLC Media Player is an open source multimedia player for various audio and video formats. If you are having a strange clipping/choppy audio when playing any media files in VLC Media Player, try change the output setting for audio.

Open VLC Media Player and go to Tools > Preferences. Click Audio (1). Change the output type to something else (I recommend you use ‘Win32 waveOut extension output’ (2)). Restart your player and see if the audio is still clipping/choppy or not. Hope this helps you.

VLC is one of the most popular media player. It is free, open source, and usually can play all the files that won’t play in other players. But, if you find VLC sometimes not very suitable for you, then you might look for other alternative media player.

I sometimes found that VLC cannot play x264 video very well on my slower Pentium 4 machine if the web browser that I use uses a lot of CPU and memory. The playback is not smooth and sometimes stuck.