I have the same problem, but it does no occur when streaming to a remote PulseAudio sink over the network (the receiving machine is running Gutsy).
Also, I have so far only experienced the problem in MPlayer, not VLC nor Firefox.
I can get MPlayer to work with OSS (and pasuspender) without stutter.
Can we conclude this is a problem somewhere between the pulseaudio daemon and alsa?
I have the same problem, but it does no occur when streaming to a remote PulseAudio sink over the network (the receiving machine is running Gutsy).
Also, I have so far only experienced the problem in MPlayer, not VLC nor Firefox.
I can get MPlayer to work with OSS (and pasuspender) without stutter.
Can we conclude this is a problem somewhere between the pulseaudio daemon and alsa?