[breezy] gstreamer +alsa sound issues after upgrade.

[Pedro Villavicencio Garrido]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:40 -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> After upgrading my laptop to breezy, gstreamer-based sound has been
> problematic. I've been using alsa/dmix instead of esd since I installed
> hoary in May, though I could be convinced to switch back to esd.
> 
> The problem is that sound is coming out of totem-gstreamer, muine, and
> rhythmbox choppy. Indeed, if I use the gstreamer-properties "Multimedia
> Systems Selector", select the 'ALSA' as the Output sink, and click
> "Test," I hear the choppiness. It's like the sound plays for a split
> second, then stops for a split second, then plays, then stops, ...
> 
> If I use other alsa clients, I don't have this problem. I've used mpg321
> and ogg123 (which I believe both use libao), and I have my libao.conf
> setup to use the alsa09 interface. If I use the totem-xine package,
> music and video both play fine, too. 
> 
> Indeed, if I switch to esd and run the esd server, sound works fine, so
> it looks like a gstreamer/alsa problem. I would prefer to continue using
> alsa/dmix, though.
> 
> Anyone else see this?
> 

I have the same bug, take a look to this
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11486