** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: pulseaudio
  
  In 9.04 my sound was working just fine, and I performed an in place upgrade 
to 9.10 from update manager.
  After the upgrade, when I play anything (audio or video) it will play for a 
short while then stop and the sound will just turn to clicks and pops (not 
stuttering really as others report). When this happens I notice that the 
"pulseaudio" process starts eating all cpu time, even for a short while after I 
close the app I was using for playback.
  
  The problem seems worse when using Totem for playback (or perhaps more 
specifically Gstreamer since Miro has the same problem and it uses gstreamer 
too) rather than my usual SMPlayer (mplayer backend). The same problem is there 
in both but it typically takes longer for it to trigger in smplayer and I can 
usually recover in smplayer by pausing for a few seconds and doing a seek back 
or forwards which is not usually possible in totem or miro.
- Symptoms when playing video are that the video freezes (possibly due to the 
aforementioned pulseaudio cpu hogging) although in smplayer sometimes picture 
will continue (jerkily) while sound devolves into the clicks and pops. 
+ Symptoms when playing video are that the video freezes (possibly due to the 
aforementioned pulseaudio cpu hogging) although in smplayer sometimes picture 
will continue (jerkily) while sound devolves into the clicks and pops.
  In totem I notice that the play counter (elapsed time) will start racing 
forward very quickly, a few seconds after sound stops.
  I also use the application Spotify via Wine and this happens there too, but 
will usually recover after a few seconds of clicking and popping (the same 
pulseaudio process cpu spike occurs during this time).
  
  audio hardware is:
  0 [CMI8738 ]: CMI8738 - C-Media CMI8738
  C-Media CMI8738 (model 37) at 0xa400, irq 10
  
  pulseaudio:
-   Installed: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
+   Installed: 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
  
  I'm attaching a pulseaudio log gathered while I was watching a video in
  which this problem occurred.

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sound stops and begins clicking and popping
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476652
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