On 9/11/2013 12:20 PM, Andreas Pleschutznig wrote:

Best I can describe the effect is that the audio is time sliced in 20ms packets and every other packet is missing, left out. and it does not happen when audio is especially loud or quiet. Sometimes it happens on the time announcements, which are absolutely perfect 99% of the time.

Sounds to me like a computer with too little RAM or too little CPU horsepower.

When you run the top command, is it using swap memory?  If so, that's bad...and you need more RAM.

Kevin