Comment 2 for bug 37020

Reinhard, no, I dont have any ideas why it is not working as expected. Alsa sound system seems to be ok, gstreamer based programs work fine.

My audio hardware:
~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                     HDA Intel at 0xffa3c000 irq 169

Maybe this output of mplayer/alsa might be helpful...
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Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/60208 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
Starting playback...
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.680 msecs. resetting stream?,?% 0 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.677 msecs. resetting stream?,?% 1 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.674 msecs. resetting stream0.1% 2 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.702 msecs. resetting stream0.1% 3 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.679 msecs. resetting stream0.1% 4 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 1.287 msecs. resetting stream0.2% 5 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 0.707 msecs. resetting stream0.2% 6 0
alsa-space: xrun of at least 1.816 msecs. resetting stream0.3% 8 0

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The problem arises even when playing Vorbis files, so it is most probably codec unrelated. Also, using ESD all formats play as expected.

The problem arises when using various interfaces, like gmplayer, mplayer from the command line.

If there is something specific that you would like to know, I could try to provide the missing information.