It seems this upstream bugs are related: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2601 http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/23
>From trial and error, I discovered the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay --buffer-size=224 /usr/share/sounds/*.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/card_shuffle.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo aplay: pcm_pulse.c:278: pulse_write: Assertion `pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)' failed. Aborted by signal Aborted... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay --buffer-size=223 /usr/share/sounds/*.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/card_shuffle.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo underrun!!! (at least 376125347.661 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 186.047 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 830.282 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 895.334 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 947.175 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 14.656 ms long) underrun!!! (at least 29.695 ms long) ^CAborted by signal Interrupt... Using a buffer size of >223 causes assertion failures, and a buffer size of <=223 works (audio plays through PulseAudio, and despite buffer underrun warnings I hear no stutter). The fixes on those upstream reports are already committed to our packages, so something else needs to be done. -- pcm_pulse.c:275: pulse_write: Assertion `pcm->last_size >= (size * pcm->frame_size)' failed. (Intrepid & pulseaudio_0.9.11-0ubuntu1~ppa3 - TheMuso PPA) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs