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What I've found, is that through my wired headphones I don't get stuttered audio in Orion 0.99.112-beta. However, when the output is set to my MacBook's speakers or the Thunderbolt Display speakers, the audio stutters. When outputted to AirPods Pro, the audio stutters and then just goes silent after about a second.

Also, if I change the audio output while watching a YouTube video, the video will pause and put up the busy/loading/buffering animation over the video and will not be able to be played again until I refresh the page.

    donut for me, the audio does not stutter/pop when I have wired/wireless headphones, but as soon as it plays out of the MacBook speakers is when it starts to pop.

    This mostly happens when I switch windows to another app/do anything outside of Orion.

        For me youtube videos at least are unwatchable when i plug in my wired headphones. Without headphones on the laptop speaker I get frequent stutters.

          Same issue occurs for me on the latest beta (Version 0.99.112-beta (WebKit 614.1.1)). Oddly enough, the audio stuttering only happens when I plug in my USB-C earbuds, but it works perfectly fine on my Macbook Air's built-in speakers.

            All this indicate a problem in the Webkit we used, and hopefully it will get fixed in the next WebKit update.

            13 days later

            This is still a issue for me. Wired headphones.
            Play a YoutubeVideo
            Put it on 2x (not sure if this is relevant)
            Switch between windows, audio pops, stutters

              It seems like the more the Mac gets stressed (through other tabs or just using applications), the higher the possibility of audio either degrading or just fading out completely. Mostly it makes watching or listening to anything in Orion almost impossible for me. Sometimes a video will go on fine for a few minutes, but most of the time audio will drop out every few seconds.

                Can everyone confirm this is fixed in RC?

                  No more audio stutters in 0.99.110.3-rc (WebKit 613.1.12). Also, playback doesn't freeze when audio output is changed during playback.

                    I've been encountering the audio stuttering issue still occuring in 0.99.112-beta (WebKit 614.1.1)

                    • Vlad replied to this.
                      17 days later

                      This was fixed in some inbetween release but is now broken again in Version 0.99.113.1-beta (WebKit 614.1.5.7)

                      • Vlad replied to this.
                        6 days later

                        pingiun Yeah new WebKit is culprit we reverted again.

                            2 months later

                            this came back in Version 0.99.114-beta (WebKit 614.1.12)

                              it's kinda annoying that this bug has regressed two times now

                              • Vlad replied to this.

                                pingiun What happens is that the new version of WebKit has this bug. We changed back twice to older version of WebKit. But we have to move on to a newer version (specially since it is 15% faster than the old one)

                                What makes it hard for us is that we can not reproduce the problem. So if someone can list exact steps that would be great.

                                    At least for me it always starts to happen when I use my airpods pro to watch youtube. It's not something that happens immediately, but it always happens on a longer youtube session. I am on a Macbook Pro M1, and I have a lot of tabs open.

                                      5 days later

                                      For me this happens for any video/audio playback from Orion, regardless of the site and audio output selected. Tried various sites like youtube, piped, invidious, ivoox, primevideo, crunchyroll, ... all play audio with noise.