[xubuntu-users] Weird sound in browser playbacks

[MR ZenWiz]

Rebooting "solved" the problem....

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:18 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed yesterday that the sound I'm getting in videos I play in my
> browsers (all of them - Chrome, Seamonkey and Firefox) sounds like it
> is a sticky tape - it starts and stops, even though the video is fine
> and the buffer bar seems to show the data loading much faster than the
> playback.
>
> This does not happen with anything I play locally, say with mplayer.
>
> Also, I shut down and restarted all the browsers, and it's still
> happening.  I typically only use one at a time, so I don't think it's
> interference between them.
>
> I didn't think to look for npviewer running in the background (until
> just now), but this is happening at home and I'm at work so, later on
> that.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> MR