When playing back ogg vorbis files with a gstreamer application like
rhythmbox or totem, I'm hearing skips or little instants of silence
scattered through the track. If I use mplayer, the same track plays
just fine. Other formats (mp3, flac) play just fine in any
application.

I loaded gstreamer-properties and it doesn't make any difference what
I select for the audio output: autodetect, pulse, or ALSA.

I tried this on two very different machines - my big desktop (where I
noticed the problem), and on a laptop with the same results.

I found a couple of vague references to an ogg playback problem in
Ubuntu, but there wasn't a whole lot of information. One posting
indicated that it may have been fixed in some update or other.

Any ideas? Maybe a gstreamer codec problem? While I could just convert
my ogg's to flac's (storage ain't a problem), it'd be nice to have a
real solution for this.

                                                         - Bluejay Adametz

Death is the greatest kick of all.  That's why they save it for last.

NOTICE: This message, including any attachments, is only for the use of 
the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged 
information, or information otherwise protected from disclosure by law.  
If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are 
hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, dissemination or 
distribution of this message or any of its attachments is strictly 
prohibited.  If you received this message in error, please contact the 
sender immediately by reply email and destroy this message, including all 
attachments, and any copies thereof.