joe_black Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Distorted, crackling video and audio playback in vmWare? I did too... Here's how I fixed it... --- Step 1) Update the host audio driver to most stable/updated version. Step 2) Shut down your VM, edit your VMX configuration file to add these entries: sound.virtualDev = "es1371" pciSound.playBuffer = "80" sound.maxLength = "2048" sound.smallBlockSize = "1024" sound.highPriority = "TRUE" sound.bufferTime = "100" Step 3) Start up your VM, disable hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash plugin. (Right click any Flash video and uncheck hardware acceleration) Step 4) Test your new settings with a fresh YouTube video or MP3 file. --- For even better quality playback adjust the value of "pciSound.playBuffer" to different values between 60 and 100 until you get the results you want. If for any reason this crashed your sound driver in OS X... try removing the "sound.virtualDev" line from the config. Questions? I will help answer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patpro Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 What VMware product are you writing about? ESXi? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midi-sama Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 What VMware product are you writing about? ESXi? vmWare Fusion/Worstation/Player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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