1280153 - Audio noise when playing video

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Alexandre Vicenzi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.84 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Try to watch some video on Firefox under Ubuntu Mate 16.04 running on Raspberry Pi 3 and some videos have audio problem.

Here is an example:

http://g1.globo.com/economia/globo-rural/videos/t/edicoes/v/quais-os-beneficios-e-os-maleficios-da-chipagem-de-tratores/5039223/

Most YouTube videos work, but there are some that have the same issue. 


Actual results:

Audio is noisy.

Here is an example of what happens: https://vimeo.com/159695009


Expected results:

Play audio correctly.

Comment 1

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

Are you using pulseaudio?

Comment 2

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

Feel free to re-open this bug upon answering the above question.

Comment 3

[Alexandre Vicenzi]

(In reply to Anthony Jones (:kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e) from comment #1)
> Are you using pulseaudio?

It uses ALSA. If you need anything else let me now.

Comment 4

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

(In reply to alexandrevicenzi from comment #3)
> (In reply to Anthony Jones (:kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e) from comment #1)
> > Are you using pulseaudio?
> 
> It uses ALSA. If you need anything else let me now.

Try installing Pulse Audio.

Comment 5

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

Does using Pulse Audio fix the issue?

Comment 6

[Adam Borowski]

(In reply to Anthony Jones (:kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e) from comment #5)
> Does using Pulse Audio fix the issue?

At least for me, removing Pulse Audio does fix the issue.  With ALSA all is fine.  As the submitter doesn't appear to know whether he's using PA, he probably is as that's the default for most distributions.

But then, the workaround is broken by #1247056...