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Audio Jitter in Steam Music Player

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3552 · opened 2014-10-22 by smagrath · updated 2018-05-18 · 5 comments · github
Ssmagrath 2014-10-22 github

Hi,
I've just installed Steam on Fedora 20 and mostly all OK. However, the Steam Music Player significantly jiiters on audio playback indicating some sort of insufficient buffering. However I can't find anyway to configure the music player and fix it.

Can't seem to find anyone else on this board with this problem...

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: 0x15
CPU Model: 0x2
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4000 Mhz
8 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Linux 3.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.16.4-200.fc20.x86_64
X Server Vendor: Fedora Project
X Server Release: 11404000
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2014-08-20

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.89
OpenGL Version: 4.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1380
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.08" x 11.42" (23.07" diag)
51.0cm x 29.0cm (58.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: USB Mixer

Memory:
RAM: 7943 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1931491 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1610282 Mb

Installed software:

PPlaque-fcc 2014-10-23 github

+1, happens with some games, too.

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: 0x16
CPU Model: 0x0
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 1500 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.13.0-37-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11501000
X Window Manager: awesome
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2014-08-20

Sound card:
Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI

Memory:
RAM: 5363 Mb

PPlaque-fcc 2014-10-28 github

Addendum: On AMD/ATI Radeon HD 8330 (A4-5000 APU) and Radeon HD 8570M.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-04-13 github

Hello @smagrath, are you still experiencing this issue with an up to date system?

This sounds like a general pulseaudio configuration issue with USB audio devices. You may have some success with suggestions from Arch's pulseaudio troubleshooting section.

Ssmagrath 2018-04-13 github

4 year response time? Really?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-05-18 github

Closing pending usable feedback.

Nothing extracted yet.