I can't be the only one who is experiencing horrible glitchy audio in Google Chrome. 

It's most apparent in Vimeo videos, and in those little sound demo links that you click, for instance in audio mixing tutorials. 

I was just trying to watch a demo of a Valhalla plug, and the glitches and clicks made it unwatchable. It doesn't even help to load the whole video before watching it. This is a problem with playback. 

Searching around the web it appears that many people are having the same problem, and that it's an issue with Pepper Flash, Chrome's inbuilt Flash player. A simple fix is commonly cited: to go to chrome://plugins/ and to disable the version of Flash that's listed as Type: PPAPI (out-of-process). This will force Chrome to use the normal Flash plugin.  And then of course to make sure you have the latest version of Flash downloaded. 

However, there seems to be a bug in which Pepper Flash enables itself again every time you restart Chrome. I've seen them talk about this bug in technical detail in Chrome bug reports. I haven't yet managed to find a fix. 

Lots of people are reporting that this Pepper Flash is slowing their computer considerably, and causing one core to spike. I presume this could be a huge problem if you ever have Chrome open while running your DAW! 

I'm sick of these stupid bugs and annoyances which ruin our whole computing experience 

I've occasionally had problems playing Sound Cloud.  Thanks for the heads-up.

Are they hot pepper flashes?

craigb


Are they hot pepper flashes?

Are you referring to the infamous Brian J. Peppers, who was jailed in 1998 for gross sexual misconduct? 

I think google chrome is inefficient because it's sending everything you do back to google.

pistolpete


I think google chrome is inefficient because it's sending everything you do back to google.

To be honest I think that's more of a privacy issue than a performance issue. Whatever data Google is harvesting from your Chrome session, it really can't be more than a few packets of text. 

mmmm....here I used to get "Shockwave Flash has crashed"...again and again...and again

On mine if I disable the PPAV, I cant play Sound Click links through Google,

but Sound Cloud and Rev Nat works fine

I'm going through it here but the last time I fixed it, I went into the Appdata folder and changed the name of the DLL and it seems to have fixed it.