Comment 6 for bug 446228

This is an alsa-plugins bug (which I'm duping against bug 485488 since I've spent the past two days investigating) that's reproducible in Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10 and Fedora 12. Notice that using the improved pulseaudio backend for libsdl1.2 is generally much better, but the alsa backend is abysmal. And now we begin the long bisecting...