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  1. Bug #376374
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Comment 2 for bug 376374

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 376374] [NEW] Crackling audio, especially from DVDs [karmic regression]

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On Thu, 14 May 2009, Max Bowsher wrote:

> After upgrading to Karmic, I now experience a crackling sound when
> playing audio. The problem is very markedly worse for audio from DVDs
> (where is is extremely obvious) than for .mp3 files (where most of the

Try adjusting the resample-method parameter in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
(~/.pulse/daemon.conf will override). Performance varies wildly based on
audio controller.

$ pulseaudio --dump-resample-methods

Be aware that the output is not ordered by any criterion, e.g., some
people have found that ffmpeg works better than src-linear.
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