(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #5) > Possibly FreeBSD uses a different sample format or sample rate as pipewire > picks up. e.g. 16bit / 48kHz. Just curious, issue was very nondeterministic. Wouldn't be resampling issues 100% deterministic on the very same stream? Another thing, it wasn't anything like when you pick different sampling rate than the HW expects, like 44k vs 48k mismatch. The issue was random pops/stutters, sometimes after a minute or two of perfect audio.