Audio crackling on last version 7.23

[lfavreau]

I have audio crackling issues in video clips in Arena 7.23 and 7.23.1. Even in Alley when I trascode to DXV audio get worse than other codecs, just sound nearly intelligible. I have my Arena installed on a Asus Vivobook with rtx4060 mobile. Someone have this same issue? I have a presentation tomorrow and this drive me crazy. Thx

[Zoltán]

Try changing the audio devcie to the windows - exclusive mode one if you see it.
Or do a computer restart.
I suspect the Windows update I got recently messed up something with the audio driver, I sometimes get audio muted too, with the devcie looking like it's not muted, but muting and unmuting it in the windows audio controls gets it unmuted properly.

[lfavreau]

Thx Zoltán.
I found the problem!
It was the audio codec. When I trascoded works well. Avoid this codec.

SAME VIDEO
BAD (crackling):

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ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC SBR
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity with Spectral Band Replication
Commercial name                          : HE-AAC
Format settings                          : NBC
Codec ID                                 : mp4a-40-5
Duration                                 : 17 s 297 ms
Duration_LastFrame                       : -26 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 70.5 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate                               : 21.533 FPS (2048 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 149 KiB (6%)

GOOD:

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ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name                          : Dolby Digital
Codec ID                                 : ac-3
Duration                                 : 17 s 201 ms
Source duration                          : 17 s 206 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel layout                           : L R
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate                               : 28.711 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 403 KiB (11%)
Source stream size                       : 403 KiB (11%)
Service kind                             : Complete Main
Default                                  : Yes
Alternate group                          : 1
Encoded date                             : 2025-08-09 17:39:35 UTC
Tagged date                              : 2025-08-09 17:39:35 UTC
Dialog Normalization                     : -31 dB
dialnorm_Average                         : -31 dB
dialnorm_Minimum                         : -31 dB
dialnorm_Maximum                         : -31 dB