Crackling with pulseaudio

[Iksf]

I've been getting this bug on linux with the latest stable release, I've had this bug for a little while I just always worked around it.

When I start mumble the sound becomes crackly for all applications playing audio and I have sort of crackly audio ghosts, I don't really know how to describe it. If I play a 2 second clip of sound I will hear the clip + some static, then a second or so of silence then another 2 seconds of crackling without the actual backing sound.

Anyway if I kill mumble, kill pulseaudio, wait for pulse to come back up then restart mumble and everything works fine. I just thought I'd post here as mumble is the only program that causes this issue for me.

[Iksf]

Still experiencing this issue with the new release

[mkrautz]

You don't describe your hardware or your distribution, so it is hard for us to try to reproduce your issue.

Also, has it always been happening for you with Mumble, or did it start at a particular point?

Thanks.

[mkrautz]

One thing you could try is to look if there are any speech-dispatcher processes on your system.

We have had reports previously that speech-dispatcher could interfere with their audio.

Instead of killing the Pulse daemon, could you try to see if there are any speech-dispatcher helper processes running on your system, and try to kill those instead -- and see if it helps?

Thanks.