It seems to make the situation worse in my case. Youtube videos play for maybe 2 seconds and then they &quot;pause&quot;, I don&#39;t know why. And also, if you try to use rhythmbox while any youtube page is open (even if no video is playing), rhythmbox will not play and it will hang.<br>
<br>As far is I knew, my sound card was capable of hardware mixing without problems, as it was able to play tons of stuff at the same time before the pulseaudio era (most likely with alsa?). It&#39;s an integrated SiS chip on my motherboard. lspci tells me:<br>
<br>00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC&#39;97 Sound Controller (rev a0)<br>