Something I've discovered is that rebooting seems to help the problem (i.e. the problem seems to develop over a period of time) and also something strange...once the audio begins to start skipping horribly with the Pulse plugin, I change back to the alsa plugin and that seems to make things better. I would like to reiterate others' observation that video/audio works perfectly in other applications such as Rythmbox, Movie Player, Xine, mplayer.
Something I've discovered is that rebooting seems to help the problem (i.e. the problem seems to develop over a period of time) and also something strange...once the audio begins to start skipping horribly with the Pulse plugin, I change back to the alsa plugin and that seems to make things better. I would like to reiterate others' observation that video/audio works perfectly in other applications such as Rythmbox, Movie Player, Xine, mplayer.