[Mint 15] Choppy/stuttery sound playback on all players

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Drachire

[Mint 15] Choppy/stuttery sound playback on all players

Post by Drachire »

Hey folks,

I'm a bit of a newbie so keep that in mind. Playback of audio files is choppy, particularly those with a higher bitrate. It sounds like the playback lags and the volume increases briefly. It seems to happen around sudden changes in frequency, usually higher notes. There are no CPU intense activities happening at the same time and the computer playsback fine when using windows 7.

I've tried using various programs to playback and they all experience the problem, disabling the autostart of pulseaudio and then killing the process I still experience the same problem so I think that rules pulseaudio out.

Anyone have ideas?
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homerscousin

Re: [Mint 15] Choppy/stuttery sound playback on all players

Post by homerscousin »

Hi, Drachire, and welcome to the world of Linux. Win 7, they did the thinking for you,it had better work, you paid for it. Linux, you are a member, you help make it better just by posting a problem as you are. But, Linux is so variable, we need details, like what hardware, which Mint version, what desktop, is it 32 or 64 bit, what programs are you talking about, and even deeper. Linux is one heck of an operating system, once you begin to learn it's language.
Drachire

Re: [Mint 15] Choppy/stuttery sound playback on all players

Post by Drachire »

Sure, mint is 15, olivia, as per the title. 64 bit

The programs I've tried playback with are banshee, vlc, audacious and whatever the hell youtube outputs sound through running firefox.

lshw outputs the following

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rachael-desktop           
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: To be filled by O.E.M. (SKU)
    vendor: To be filled by O.E.M.
    version: To be filled by O.E.M.
    serial: To be filled by O.E.M.
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop family=To be filled by O.E.M. sku=SKU uuid=0033001E-8C00-005A-1C47-3085A99C31C4
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: M5A97 EVO R2.0
       vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
       physical id: 0
       version: Rev 1.xx
       serial: 120700330200086
       slot: To be filled by O.E.M.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: 0302
          date: 07/04/2012
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 8128KiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
          serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
          slot: AM3r2
          size: 1400MHz
          capacity: 3500MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
          capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold bmi1 cpufreq
          configuration: cores=6 enabledcores=6 threads=6
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 5
             slot: L1-Cache
             size: 288KiB
             capacity: 288KiB
             clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: L2-Cache
             size: 6MiB
             capacity: 6MiB
             clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified
        *-cache:2
             description: L3 cache
             physical id: 7
             slot: L3-Cache
             size: 8MiB
             capacity: 8MiB
             clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
             capabilities: pipeline-burst internal write-back unified
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 2e
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 8GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2013-04-18 12:23+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 16567) Synchronous [empty]
             product: Array1_PartNumber0
             vendor: Manufacturer0
             physical id: 0
             serial: SerNum0
             slot: DIMM0
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
             product: Array1_PartNumber1
             vendor: Manufacturer1
             physical id: 1
             serial: SerNum1
             slot: DIMM1
             size: 8GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2013-04-18 12:23+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 16567) Synchronous [empty]
             product: Array1_PartNumber2
             vendor: Manufacturer2
             physical id: 2
             serial: SerNum2
             slot: DIMM2
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2012-02-02 13:04+0000Last-Translator: Joel Addison <jaddi27@gmail.com>Language-Team: English (Australia) <en_AU@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2013-04-18 12:23+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 16567) Synchronous [empty]
             product: Array1_PartNumber3
             vendor: Manufacturer3
             physical id: 3
             serial: SerNum3
             slot: DIMM3
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx0 port B)
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 02
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:52 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fea00000-feafffff ioport:c0000000(size=268435456)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950]
                vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
                resources: irq:89 memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:fea00000-fea3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fea40000-fea5ffff
           *-multimedia
                description: Audio device
                product: Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series]
                vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
                resources: irq:88 memory:fea60000-fea63fff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:52 ioport:d000(size=4096) ioport:d0000000(size=1048576)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: eth0
                version: 09
                serial: 30:85:a9:9c:31:c4
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168f-1_0.0.5 06/18/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:86 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:52 memory:fe900000-fe9fffff
           *-usb
                description: USB controller
                product: ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller
                vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: msi msix pm pciexpress xhci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
                resources: irq:46 memory:fe900000-fe907fff
        *-pci:3
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 6
             bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:53 ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fe800000-fe8fffff
           *-storage
                description: SATA controller
                product: ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
                vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
                version: 01
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: storage msi pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
                resources: irq:87 ioport:c050(size=8) ioport:c040(size=4) ioport:c030(size=8) ioport:c020(size=4) ioport:c000(size=32) memory:fe800000-fe8001ff
        *-pci:4
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 7
             bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:53 memory:fe700000-fe7fffff
           *-usb
                description: USB controller
                product: ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller
                vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: msi msix pm pciexpress xhci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=xhci_hcd latency=0
                resources: irq:50 memory:fe700000-fe707fff
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 11
             bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
             version: 40
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=32
             resources: irq:19 ioport:f040(size=8) ioport:f030(size=4) ioport:f020(size=8) ioport:f010(size=4) ioport:f000(size=16) memory:feb0b000-feb0b3ff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32
             resources: irq:18 memory:feb0a000-feb0afff
        *-usb:1
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 12.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:17 memory:feb09000-feb090ff
        *-usb:2
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 13
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32
             resources: irq:20 memory:feb08000-feb08fff
        *-usb:3
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 13.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:21 memory:feb07000-feb070ff
        *-serial
             description: SMBus
             product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 42
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0
             resources: irq:0
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 40
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
             resources: irq:16 memory:feb00000-feb03fff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 14.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
             version: 40
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-pci:5
             description: PCI bridge
             product: SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 14.4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.4
             version: 40
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master vga_palette
             resources: ioport:b000(size=4096) memory:fe600000-fe6fffff
           *-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller
                vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
                physical id: 7
                bus info: pci@0000:06:07.0
                version: c0
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=32
                resources: irq:22 memory:fe600000-fe6007ff ioport:b000(size=128)
        *-usb:4
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 14.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32
             resources: irq:18 memory:feb06000-feb06fff
        *-usb:5
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 16
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=32
             resources: irq:22 memory:feb05000-feb05fff
        *-usb:6
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
             physical id: 16.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:16.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:23 memory:feb04000-feb040ff
     *-pci:1
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 15h Processor Function 0
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 101
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:2
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          product: Family 15h Processor Function 1
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 102
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:3
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 15h Processor Function 2
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 103
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:4
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 15h Processor Function 3
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 104
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=k10temp
          resources: irq:0
     *-pci:5
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 15h Processor Function 4
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 105
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.4
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=fam15h_power
          resources: irq:0
     *-pci:6
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 15h Processor Function 5
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 106
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.5
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-scsi:0
          physical id: 1
          logical name: scsi1
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: ST2000DM001-9YN1
             vendor: Seagate
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             version: CC4B
             serial: W1E1HBG3
             size: 1863GiB (2TB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
             configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=4096 signature=60f71a78
           *-volume:0
                description: Windows NTFS volume
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
                logical name: /dev/sda1
                version: 3.1
                serial: bc110a69-f203-2d40-af3d-b5238718656d
                size: 976GiB
                capacity: 976GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
                configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2013-06-17 06:45:03 filesystem=ntfs state=clean
           *-volume:1
                description: Extended partition
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                size: 886GiB
                capacity: 886GiB
                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
              *-logicalvolume:0
                   description: Linux filesystem partition
                   physical id: 5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   logical name: /
                   capacity: 878GiB
                   configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered state=mounted
              *-logicalvolume:1
                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                   physical id: 6
                   logical name: /dev/sda6
                   capacity: 8119MiB
                   capabilities: nofs
     *-scsi:1
          physical id: 2
          logical name: scsi2
          capabilities: emulated
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD-RAM writer
             product: DVDRAM GH24NS90
             vendor: HL-DT-ST
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom
             logical name: /dev/cdrw
             logical name: /dev/dvd
             logical name: /dev/dvdrw
             logical name: /dev/sr0
             version: IN01
             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
     *-scsi:2
          physical id: 3
          logical name: scsi3
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: WDC WD1200JD-00G
             vendor: Western Digital
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sdb
             version: 02.0
             serial: WD-WMAET2169445
             size: 111GiB (120GB)
             configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: usb@1:5
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:1e:e5:e4:05:86
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.8.0-19-generic firmware=0.29 ip=192.168.0.48 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
let me know if you need anything else
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