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[Linux] Heavy Audio crackling when recording, happens every "x" amount of minutes

Open Milli189 opened this issue 5 months ago • 3 comments

Operating System Info

Other

Other OS

Fedora Linux

OBS Studio Version

31.1.1

OBS Studio Version (Other)

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OBS Studio Log URL

https://obsproject.com/logs/jlOEgYhaOXOs0pi7

OBS Studio Crash Log URL

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Expected Behavior

The audio recording doesn't crackle

Current Behavior

The audio recording crackles a lot.

Basically this has been happening since I've switched to Linux one year ago, and it's still present in the latest version of OBS, 31.1.1

In the title I've said that this happens every "x" amount of minutes, because I don't know precisely how many minutes it takes to repeat the crackling, but it happens again after some minutes, so you end up with a recording full of crackling in the audio, making certain parts of the video not understandable.

Here are some videos that are affected by this issue, all of this videos are recorded on Linux, and these are just a tiny amount of videos where I've heard this issue appearing:

5:52 https://youtu.be/cYevedtNuEk?si=nA2-6US7-lKzvk6S

25:54 https://youtu.be/lNyuz7y4iRU?si=xRQjFFXJYbTUT-Wk

3:46 https://youtu.be/42KxUr_trXw?si=8X3jS5s9vMNu1hDX

14:26, 28:11, 51:11, 1:03:28 (and in many other parts of the video) https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdYM-HmcY8

Brodie also made a post about this exact issue, as you can hear it in many of hist videos too http://youtube.com/post/Ugkxwe1dI5FwTH4qCmj8pJTFCYD3hxOtUmJa?si=PuPAkmnsIlRVAMjG

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Record with OBS on Linux

Anything else we should know?

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Milli189 avatar Jul 24 '25 12:07 Milli189

Hello,

I am experiencing the same audio crackling issue with OBS Studio on Ubuntu 24.04. I am using version 31.1.2. This crackling is clearly audible around 6 minutes and 1 second in this video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2526469182?t=00h05m55s

Lenglemetz avatar Jul 31 '25 08:07 Lenglemetz

Same with Flatpak + fedora 42

aaaaadrien avatar Aug 09 '25 09:08 aaaaadrien

Related to #4600 #12835

ogmkp avatar Nov 25 '25 23:11 ogmkp