Short audio files are truncated and certain files less than one second don't play
OS and Version: Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 64-bit
VLC media player version: 1.1.9 The Luggage
Hardware: Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD (Lenovo ThinkPad W500 built-in audio card)
Issue: Short audio files (possibly all audio files) are truncated by tenths-of-a-second and some audio files less than one second don't play at all, assumed to be due to the truncation behavior. I have only noticed this on short files (less than around 10 seconds), but it is quite possible that all audio files are truncated in this manner.
The files I discovered this with are wave files. VLC's Media Information window indicates that these are "Codec: PCM S16 LE (araw)", "Channels: Mono", "Sample rate: 44100 Hz", and "Bits per sample: 16". In particular, these are bunch of files extracted from Portal 2.
To check if it was these files or other types of files, I sliced two new files out of an MP3 around 0.626 and 0.290 seconds in length, both saved as MP3s. VLC Media Information on these test files lists them as "Codec: MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga)", "Channels: Stereo", "Sample rate: 44100 Hz", and "Bitrate: 128 kb/s". Both of these were truncated.
For files that don't play, VLC at least appears to try to play them (based on observing things like the Status bar, which reads with the file name, and the play button switching to the pause icon).
Possibly related to this, the Playlist doesn't show a duration for files under one second.
Audacity on the same machine will play these files just fine.
I've also had a friend verify that VLC on Ubuntu 10.10 (1.1.4 The Luggage) on completely different hardware also exhibits this behavior, but Audacity and mplayer on his machine do not.
Let me know if I can provide any further information.