hi mik,
are you running pd with -rt ?
yes, i was.
for me this problem goes away by disabling -rt
for me too. thx. will it make a big difference, performance-wise?
yes. you will probably get more audio dropouts for the same buffer size.
increasing the buffer size is about the only thing you can do without starting to get creative running 2 pd's, one for audio with -rt and one for video without -rt and audio, communicating using netsend.
will the problem reoccur if i run pd as root? (we'll soon know...)
it shouldn't depend on being root or not.