Choppy Flash Audio

Playing flash videos (youtube and standalone flash) gives me choppy audio and video.

It seems intermittent, I was playing youtube videos earlier with no problems ... now I can't.

Using:

Could anyone offer any advice? Thank you.

Constantin

Solution 1:

I have experienced this too. Everything works fine but after a period of time, the sound becomes choppy in flash videos.

Restarting pulseaudio worked for me. To kill pulseaudio:

pulseaudio -k

To restart pulseaudio:

pulseaudio -D

Another way to do it, but you would be setting pulseaudio to be run a system wide daemon.

To do this, in /etc/default/pulseaudio, set:

PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1

Then run:

sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart

What I tried in the same situation was:

remove the flash plugin installed by firefox itself, install the one from the repository (apt-get install adobe-flashplugin). The problem changed (instead of slow and choppy it was now too fast and only clicks for audio).
try to use gnash instead, but the gnash packages in the repository seem to not install a firefox plugin at all.
switch youtube to html5, but the video I wanted wasn't available in WebM, and installing x264 and chromium didn't help either

In the end, I used the DownloadHelper addon to simply download the video (but that is of course a VERY ugly solution for only a few use cases.

Some people in forums suggests to right click->settings->display and disable hardware acceleration.