[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1025453: Choppy/skipping audio over HDMI with pipewire

[Josh Hansen]

Hi, I am using Linux Mint 22 which derives from Ubuntu Noble and thus draws from some version of Debian trixie/sid. I apologize to report here as I am not using Debian directly, but the Mint team regards this as an upstream issue, so this seems like my best chance at a resolution. I experience intolerable intermittent skipping / stuttering with audio played via Pipewire over an HDMI connection. Linux Mint 21.3 which still used Pulseaudio worked fine over the same hardware configuration. Replacing Pipewire with Pulseaudio in Linux Mint 22 also resolves the issue. It appears from the history of this bug that it has been known for some time and yet remains unaddressed. I just wanted to chime in that it is affecting people in the wild far downstream, so a fix would go a long way. I hereby volunteer to provide assistance debugging the issue, at least from a Linux Mint 22 perspective. (I can't afford to install Debian itself on that system, though perhaps we could repro the issue from a live USB.) Thank you.

- Josh
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