Hello,

A newcomer here. I hope someone can give some advice in troubleshooting this issue.

1. Issue:
I have distorted audio from my webcam. It sounds a bit choppy, echoey and distorted (not hot or loud/gainy more like 'quite corrupted') also the input seems to lag by around 100ms.

The volume graph/monitor/meter in pavucontrol updates every 1 second, not smoothly in real-time as with Zorin 12 & 9.

The only thing I can think is that the Ubuntu team have broken something again and that it was a software update which 'updated' my sound :/

Disconnecting, reconnecting, rebooting, logging off - All have no effect.

It doesn't sound like mismatched sample-rates or re-sampling, could it possibly be incorrect bit-depth? - Grabbing the wrong number of bits per sample from the hardware?

Edit: My line-in seems to be doing it, too, so I don't think it's the webcam anymore, I'm now sure it's the OS.

2. Background:
I just moved over form Zorin and installed KDE Neon and I have come across an issue with audio input.

Unfortunately, it is regarding audio input issues and I can't seem to ask a question regarding audio issues unless it is about an application - It's not an application fault, AFAIK.

I had this issue with the latest Zorin 15 (one reason I dropped Zorin) and thought a different distro wouldn't have these issues. The only thing I haven't ruled out is the webcam itself, however nothing about it has changed - The audio input distortion started with the new version of Zorin 15. It's even still connected to the same USB port, the only thing that changed was the OS version (and my keyboard lol).

If you need anything from me, please let me know - I'm willing to give Neon a good go

Thank you for your time.