Comment 5 for bug 222597

Same here. Totem works fine. I really hate to leave VLC. Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit.

Forcing audio output module of "Pulseaudio audio output" doesn't seem to help. Skips randomly every few seconds on at least .mp3, .wma, .ogg

~/$ lspci |grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)