[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1095087: pipewire: Audio output slow and stuttery after today's Debian Testing update

[Jonathan Kamens]

Package: pipewire
Version: 1.2.7-1+b2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading Pipewire from Debian Testing today, I attempted to
make a call with Google Messages for Web, running in Firefox. I was
unable to do so because the audio output from the call was too slow
and stuttery, i.e., distorted, frequent pauses and gaps in the audio,
for me to be able to understand it. I also tried in Chrome and had the
same problem.

I rebooted the computer and tried again and the audio was briefly
better but then started stuttering again.

Also, I attempted to dial a number on the Messages dialpad while in
the call to select from a menu I was offered, and the IVR system said
it didn't recognize the number I dialed, so I assume this means that
there's an audio problem for input as well, not just for output.

This all worked fine before today's update.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.11-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.137
ii  init-system-helpers      1.68
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules  1.2.7-1+b2
ii  pipewire-bin             1.2.7-1+b2

pipewire recommends no packages.

pipewire suggests no packages.

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