The 3.8 kernel works great but the 3.9 kernel causes audio to stutter if I use jack and vlc. vlc works fine if I don't use jack and mplayer works fine with or without jack. My 3.8 and 3.9 kernel configs are the same inside CONFIG_SND. I went over this quite a bit on the vlc list but was not able to find a solution: http://vlc-videolan.10979.n7.nabble.com/vlc-stutters-on-3-9-linux-kernel-td5440.html I filed a vlc bug was referred here. https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8617
Does the problem still happen with the recent kernels? If so, please give alsa-info.sh output (run it with --no-upload option).