Bug#644901: Slightly different behavior, title update or new bugreport needed ?

[Raphaël HALIMI]

I have a quite similar problem on two different copmputers (a manually 
assembled PC and a Lenovo X200s laptop). Since the symptoms are slightly 
different, I don't know if I should file a different bugreport, or if 
this one should be changed to reflect the more general nature of the bug.

The differences are :

- The crackling sound generally disappear after a few seconds, and it 
happens only at the beginning of playback. This problem affects every 
software based on VLC (freetuxtv when changing channel, Amarok with 
phonon-backend-vlc at the beginning of a song (but not always), etc etc).

- It also happen (with Amaork at least) when manually changing position 
with the time counter, and sometimes when changing song (either 
automatically or manually), or 30 seconds or so before the song 
automatically changes. In the latter case, there is no crackling at the 
beginning of the next song.

- It happens on both of the computers I use : a manually assembled 
desktop PC (lspci says "00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices 
[AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)") and a Lenovo ThinkPad 
X200s ("00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD 
Audio Controller (rev 03)"), so it must not be limited to ca0106 HDAudio 
device like the title says.

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Raphaël HALIMI