HI.
Do not know if this is just my affliction, but on two computers (PC and notebook) with Mageia Mageia 2 and 3 Cauldron had a problem with the sound during playback in VLC 2.0.1 or 2.0.2.
I looked for many reasons, but the sound crackled terribly and nothing helped. Half of the sound system crashed and replaced with newer packages, but it was still the same.
Let me add that this has happened only in VLC, for other programs like smplayer or xine sound was good.
As a warning, as if someone else had that problem, to fix this problem, change the settings for vlc.
VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -> Sound -> Output Module -> default and change it to alsa or pulseaudio.
The sound from now on sail. Does anyone know what was wrong?