Bug#687045: pulseaudio: Audio delay and crackling at startup

[Felipe Sateler]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 08:50:23PM +0200, R33D3M33R wrote:
>> Package: pulseaudio
>> Version: 2.0-6
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainers,
>>
>> I installed Wheezy KDE amd64 on several machines:
>>
>> *Sempron 3000+ on GA-M55S-S3 (motherboard output)
>> *Athlon X2 4850e on MSI K9VGM-V with HD4670 (HDMI output from the graphics
>> card)
>> *Turion X2 TL56 (integrated speakers)
>> *Core I3 2120 on ASUS P8H67 (motherboard output)
>>
>> and on startup I'm getting a strange audio delay/crackling.
>>
>> The worst sound delay is on the Sempron, the crackling there is so awful, you
>> have to turn off speakers. On the i3, there is only a slight delay. It looks
>> like this problem is related to the CPU speed and load on startup. If I try to
>> open a folder at startup, the delay gets worse.
>>
>> I had squeeze installed before and it worked with no problems. I'm not sure
>> what data to collect to pinpoint the source of this problem.
>
> This may be a problem of too high CPU usage. Can you try changing the
> resample-method key in daemon.pa?
>
> I think the 'trivial' resampler should be the less cpu-hungry, so you
> should probably try that first.
>
> --
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler