Comment 28 for bug 496616

Removing gstream0.10-pulseaudio resolves the problem for me on a Toshiba NB200 with:

john@JDM-NB:~$ uname -a
Linux JDM-NB 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Totem Movie Player 2.30.2 using GStreamer 0.10.28

and (after removal of gstream0.10-pulseaudio):

john@JDM-NB:~$ dpkg -l | egrep -e 'alsa|pulse'
ii alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3 ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-utils 1.0.22-0ubuntu5 ALSA utilities
ii bluez-alsa 4.60-0ubuntu8 Bluetooth audio support
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.28-1 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.22-1ubuntu2 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii libesd-alsa0 0.2.41-6ubuntu1 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - transition
ii libpulse-browse0 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PulseAudio client libraries (zeroconf suppor
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PulseAudio client libraries
rc libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-4ubuntu4 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA
ii libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio 1.2.14-4ubuntu1 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and Pulse
ii pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-gconf 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound