[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#849582: chromium-browser: audio is broken

[Pawel Zaluski]

Source: chromium-browser
Version: 55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
     - just running Chromium as usual

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
     - opened any youtube video (e.g. through the html5 player) , or an online radio

   * What was the outcome of this action?
    - there is no proper audio, just crackling noises instead. Also the
      video runs noticeably faster

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
    - normal audio and video

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)