Choppy sound and video

[Dori]

I'm really not sure which component is to blame here, but I find it rather strange that I'm getting performance issues of this sort with my system. My computer has a Core 2 Quad processors and 8GB of DDR2 ram. It's by no means taxed, yet if I have an mp3 playing (using Rythmbox, though I've also noticed it in VLC), and I'm scrolling on a heavy web page (specifically http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates), the sound will get interrupted for like a second. Looking at the CPU load it's minimal. There's plenty of memory available. There is hardly any disk access. I can find no reason for choppy sound.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64.

[Gergely Máté (sportember)]

It may be your video driver. Are you using the closed Nvidia xorg drivers?

[emeriste (emnode)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 193578, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Here is a link to the master bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/193578

You are encouraged to report any further problems there. I can tell you, I have also had this same problem. I hope that we get to the bottom of it, it has been around for a while.