This issue affects me as well, I've spent half a workday attempting to work around it and thought my experience might be useful to whomever works on fixing the issue.
I'm using a Dell Precision 5510 with this audio card: user@hostname ~ $ lspci | grep -i audio 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-H HD Audio (rev 31) This morning I logged in and noticed an available kernel upgrade, from 4.4.0-53 to 4.4.0-78 . After upgrading, no audio player would play(with my bluetooth headset connected) . The timer would remain at 0:00 ; this includes pithos, youtube, and xplayer. If I changed the output device from my bluetooth headset to the built-in speakers, audio and video would play without issue. If I changed the bluetooth headset's audio profile to "Headset Head Unit HSP/HFP" audio and video would play (though at a quality that's not quite acceptable for listening to music). When changing the audio profile to "High Fidelity Playback A2DP Sink" any media player would freeze at 0:00 again. I attempted to diagnose the issue by checking dmesg after launching a media player; nothing new appeared after running dmesg, then xplayer, then dmesg again. I attempted to run xplayer from a terminal to see if any debugging or error information appeared, it did not. The only way I have been able to correct the issue was by rebooting, selecting "Linux mint with advanced options" from grub, selecting the older kernel (4.4.0-53), and uninstalling the new kernel. After doing so I can set the headset to the higher audio quality without media players freezing. No other packages were installed/uninstalled. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589008 Title: Bluetooth freezing video playback In Ubuntu/Kubuntu 16.04 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In 16.04 when a bluetooth audio device is connected it freezes video playback and also no sound comes from online audio only streams. Issue does not exist with a wired headset. This issue does not exist with 15.10. All updates have been installed on 16.04 including backports but they have not fixed the issue. It is not browser specific and not website specific. It is not hardware specific as it affects my laptop with an intel 7260 card and my pc with an intel 8260 card. The issue exists on both ubuntu and kubuntu 16.04. I have reported it on the ubuntu support forums and after investigation a moderator noticed changed in the kernel from 4.4 and 4.2 that may becausing the issue and asked me to file a bug report. The ubuntu forum thread can be found here. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2326672 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: linux-image-4.4.0-23-generic 4.4.0-23.41 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-generic 4.4.10 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: stephen 1435 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: stephen 1435 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Jun 3 23:50:00 2016 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=78e7aefc-d517-4c58-836f-a90f0b6017c6 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-06 (28 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: MSI MS-7978 ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-23-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=bccf2ca7-4e23-412a-ba10-7a3f915270dd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-23-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-23-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-03 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/16/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: C.60 dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string dmi.board.name: H170 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 2.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.version: 2.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrC.60:bd05/16/2016:svnMSI:pnMS-7978:pvr2.0:rvnMSI:rnH170GAMINGM3(MS-7978):rvr2.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr2.0: dmi.product.name: MS-7978 dmi.product.version: 2.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MSI To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1589008/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
