Bug#867548: playback to HDMI monitor stutters / pauses

[Daniel Pocock]

On 07/07/17 18:07, Felipe Sateler wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
> <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>> wrote:
> 
>     Package: pulseaudio
>     Version: 10.0-1
>     Severity: important
> 
>     When playing audio through the HDMI monitor, I've noticed it
>     stutters/pauses every few seconds, very briefly, less than a second each
>     time.  It is very irritating to listen to.
> 
>     In the middle of playback, I can open the GNOME settings panel for sound
>     and switch the output to another device (e.g. my USB sound card
>     connected to an amp with an optical cable) and it works fine.  As soon
>     as I switch back to the HDMI output the problem comes back.
> 
> 
> Could you attach a verbose log please?
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log
>  


After following those instructions, I don't hear any playback at all

I notice the killall command doesn't actually kill every pulseaudio
process, there is a process running as user Debian-gdm.  Do I need to do
something to stop that too before logging will work?

Regards,

Daniel