Ubuntu – Choppy Flash Audio

12.04flash

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:

  • 64 bit 12.04
  • Google Chrome 64 bit
  • Nvidia drivers from PPA
  • Flash plugin version: 11.2.202.236

Could anyone offer any advice? Thank you.

Constantin

Best Answer

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
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