Comment 88 for bug 644644

David Henningsson:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 0.10.25-4ubuntu3~diwic2
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:i386 0.10.25-4ubuntu3~diwic2
on Maverick were enough to fix my long standing problem when trying to run the following:
wget http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/wavpcm/8_Channel_ID.wav
echo "extra-arguments=--log-target=syslog --resample-method=speex-float-3" >> ~/.pulse/client.conf
pulseaudio -k
gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=8_Channel_ID.wav ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesink

I have a feeling other media players also exhibited symptoms but as gstreamer is the main one that I use that is what I have tested here.