Why do many videos in Chrome and Chromium play with audio distortion under Linux, but not in Firefox?

Question

linux

Many music videos (for example, this one ) play in Chrome and Chromium with a disgustingly hoarse sound, like from a cheap Chinese radio with a torn speaker, but in Firefox - normal sound.
Seen under CentOS and Manjaro.
Why and how to deal with it?

Answer 1

First, try to figure out what each browser is playing through - directly to the default ALSA device, or through the pulseaudio client/server plugin? Look at each browser's package dependencies -- is pulseaudio mentioned there? Do you have this service running? Put it down, try playing the video again in every browser. If it turns out to be in it, then either try to configure it correctly, or rebuild Chrome without pulseaudio. If this is not the case, then deal with your audio device - put something on playback from the problem browser, look at the device stats in /proc/alsa/... , play around with the module loading parameters for your particular device.