Yes this bug affects all ubuntu releases since at least 13.04 No I haven't found a solution yet. This was the best I came up with. You can try to increase the default-fragments number but that will increase latency. A number of 5 is a compromise between latency and probability of crash. I suggest you use Alexander Patrakov's dca alsa plugin
http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/index/0-2 Its main disadvantage is the higher cpu usage! However it doesn't suffer from this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1188425 Title: Audio breaks up and pulseaudio eventually crashes with Alsa a52 (ac3) plugin (Ubuntu 13.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1188425/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs