After posting the above information to a corresponding bug in Skype, another user posted back a solution that definitely solved the problem for me for both VLC and Skype (and I suppose every other source in PC with intel-hda chipsets): https://jira.skype.com/browse/SCL-726?focusedCommentId=47858&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_47858
You have to modify the following line in /etc/pulse/default.pa load-module module-udev-detect with : load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0 After further researches, I've found this is the suggested workaround for broken alsa sound drivers in regards to "glitch-free" PA. See following links for informations: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/BrokenSoundDrivers https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751265 Title: pulseaudio distorts VLC audio -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
