Hi, whenever I try play a youtube video in HD the sound has a background crackling/static noise and is very noticeable. It only does this on chrome as games and music. Crackling on Audio when watching videos, you tube. A few links to the videos that have crackling audio? Audio occurs only while streaming YouTube videos. Sound crackling - posted in Audio and Video: Hi everyone, For the past few months Ive had a problem on my desktop PC, where for seemingly no reason after a few hours. Aug 02, 2014 - Whenver playing ANY videos on youtube. Without crackling. It also appears to have fixed a related issue where audio would appear to 'slow down' rather.

Ok, after a whole afternoon spent with an obscure Benq laptop on which I installed Windows 8.1 that had a sound crackling problem I’ve finally came up with a solution. I know that it wasn’t hardware related( well IT IS, because it uses some outdated sound card maybe), because I tried a live Linux installation and the sound problem wasn’t there. I’ve tried everything that was suggested on different sites. First I downloaded Driver Booster and updated my drivers. I’ve updated the windows installation. I tried using, which indicated that I have a latency issue.

I proceeded to disable almost all of the devices from Device Manager, with no result. The next step was to reinstall the driver I disabled audio enhancements on playback devices. Nothing worked. Archive Name And Parameters Of Asl. I was reluctant to perform a BIOS update as the laptop wasn’t mine and wouldn’t want to accidentally brick it. It seems that some of the above solution worked for others. What worked for me? Eventually, I was inspired who disabled his audio enhancements.