[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#437827: libasound2: Sound creaks badly when playing DVDs or OGG files

[Frans Pop]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.0.14a-2
Severity: important

Recently the sound when playing DVDs with vlc started creaking very bad,
especially with some voices and loud sound in general. Today I found
that the same happens when I play OGG files using vlc.

If I play the same movies or OGG files in kaffeine, the sound is fine.

My first impulse was to blame vlc, but today I find that I can 100% resolve
the problem by downgrading libasound2 to 1.0.13-2. The problem is
completely reproducible after upgrading libasound2 again.

I guess this is probably related to #429326, although my symptoms are
different (I have no problem with pauses).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libasound2 recommends no packages.

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