video and sound skipping

[Ariel Vardi]

When watching a video streaming from the web using the mplayer-plugin, the video and the sound skips every one second or so. Seems like it's skipping each time it gets a new segment of data.
It's very annoying and makes the video barely watchable.

sample video (da vinci code trailer):
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/trailers/1808625216/1809272047/?http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/mf/frame?theme=minfo&lid=wmv-300-p.1418219-165396,wmv-700-p.1418220-165396,qtv-56-p.1418213-165396,qtv-100-p.1418214-165396,qtv-300-p.1418215-165396,qtv-700-p.1418216-165396,wmv-56-p.1418217-165396,wmv-100-p.1418218-165396,qtv-28-p.1418213-165396,wmv-28-p.1418217-165396&id=1808625216&f=1808625216&mspid=1809272047&type=t

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'mplayerplug-in'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[Ariel Vardi (ariel-vardi)]

found the bug and its solution here:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=HighDefinitionAudio

adding srate=48000 to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf fixes the bug.
It seems like it only happens with Intel HDA audio cards.

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

guessing package