I still get a similar issue but this time it's a strange popping sound with 
audio, same hardware.  It's absent while using the same laptop without 
harddrive encryption (using the default options from the Ubuntu alternative 
install).  I've noticed that every 7 seconds or so cpu useage jumps about 35% 
(while idle & while running the videos that cause the earlier problems so I'm 
assuming that it's the filesystem encryption/decryption that has an impact on 
audio quality in this case as the CPU is busy with filesystem/disk rather than 
audio?).  
However, these same files that once caused the same laptop a few months ago to 
peg 100% cpu useage consistently are now down to only 35% to 40% total CPU 
useage (with the +35% spikes every 7 or so seconds as when idle) and video 
playback is stable in a window and full screen at 1280x960 resolution.  These 
are avi files encoded in "RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640x480, 23.98 fps, 
video:  xvid, audio mpeg-1 layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)".  If you need i can 
upload a file for you to play with to some repository.  However, they are about 
140MB each which means i can't e'mail them.  

Likewise, the odd thing is when I use a hi-def avi that I encoded myself
from the local cable company (using MythTV and converted to avi) with a
native resolution of 1280x720 xvid, 30fps, and mp3 audio, i don't hear
any pops.  I'm wondering if now it's nothing but a poor encoding to the
files totem is having issues with. 

Let me know if you need the files themselves, i'd be happy to provide. 
I'm reluctant to cut or reencode the actual files for smaller size in
case any artifacts that would differences in playback would appear and
invalidate any tests.


--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

From: Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com>
Subject: [Bug 369587] Re: Totem (Ubuntu 9.04 i386) has poor audio playback 
while playing video.
To: wolffire...@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 8:31 AM

do you still get the issue? could you add an example to the bug?

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Totem (Ubuntu 9.04 i386) has poor audio playback while playing video.
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Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: totem-gstreamer

While playing AVI, mpeg1, xvid/divx, video files with audio, totem has
severe audio stuttering problems.  Video plays fine without obvious
issues, but the audio output stutters plays in a broken as if it were
skipping every few frames.  Mplayer using the same file, default options
playback without broken/stuttering audio.

Hardware is a Dell B130 laptop.

package is totem-gstreamer version 2.26.1-0ubuntu5

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express 
Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML 
Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express 
Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI 
Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI 
Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge 
(rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) 
IDE Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 
802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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