UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36
Platform: 9000.82.0

Example URL:
www.hangouts.google.com

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Perform video call via Google Hangouts
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Audio quality is poor - as if the audio is being over-compressed or utilizing low bandwidth.

Did this work before? N/A 

Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? N/A

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: 56.0.2924.87
Flash Version: 24.0.0.194

Contents of chrome://gpu: 
Graphics Feature Status
•	Canvas: Hardware accelerated
•	Flash: Hardware accelerated
•	Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
•	Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
•	Compositing: Hardware accelerated
•	Multiple Raster Threads: Disabled
•	Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
•	Panel Fitting: Unavailable
•	Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
•	Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
•	Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
•	VPx Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
•	WebGL: Hardware accelerated
•	WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
Driver Bug Workarounds
•	clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
•	count_all_in_varyings_packing
•	disable_discard_framebuffer
•	disable_framebuffer_cmaa
•	msaa_is_slow
•	scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args
Problems Detected
•	Chrome OS panel fitting is only supported for Intel IVB and SNB Graphics Controllers
Disabled Features: panel_fitting
•	Framebuffer discarding causes jumpy scrolling on Mali drivers: 301988
Applied Workarounds: disable_discard_framebuffer
•	Clear uniforms before first program use on all platforms: 124764, 349137
Applied Workarounds: clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
•	Mesa drivers in ChromeOS handle varyings without static use incorrectly: 333885
Applied Workarounds: count_all_in_varyings_packing
•	Always rewrite vec/mat constructors to be consistent: 398694
Applied Workarounds: scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args
•	On Intel GPUs MSAA performance is not acceptable for GPU rasterization: 527565
Applied Workarounds: msaa_is_slow
•	Limited enabling of Chromium GL_INTEL_framebuffer_CMAA: 535198
Applied Workarounds: disable_framebuffer_cmaa
•	Accelerated rasterization has been disabled, either via blacklist, about:flags or the command line.
Disabled Features: rasterization
•	Raster is using a single thread.
Disabled Features: multiple_raster_threads
•	Native GpuMemoryBuffers have been disabled, either via about:flags or command line.
Disabled Features: native_gpu_memory_buffers
Version Information
Data exported	3/27/2017, 9:18:41 AM
Chrome version	Chrome/56.0.2924.87
Operating system	Linux 3.8.11
Software rendering list version	12.06
Driver bug list version	9.24
ANGLE commit id	a4aaa2de57dc
2D graphics backend	Skia/56 0
Command Line Args	--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome/pepper/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=24.0.0.194 --ui-prioritize-in-gpu-process --use-gl=egl --gpu-sandbox-failures-fatal=yes --enable-logging --log-level=1 --use-cras --enable-wayland-server --user-data-dir=/home/chronos --max-unused-resource-memory-usage-percentage=5 --login-profile=user --has-chromeos-keyboard --default-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/oem_large.jpg --default-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/oem_small.jpg --default-wallpaper-is-oem --guest-wallpaper-large=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_large.jpg --guest-wallpaper-small=/usr/share/chromeos-assets/wallpaper/guest_small.jpg --enable-prefixed-encrypted-media --enable-consumer-kiosk --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=15 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=19 --vmodule=screen_locker=2,webui_screen_locker=2,lock_state_controller=2,webui_login_view=2,power_button_observer=2,*ui/display/chromeos*=1,*ash/display*=1,*ui/ozone*=1,*zygote*=1,*plugin*=2,auto_enrollment_controller=1,*chromeos/login/*=1 --login-manager --silent-launch
Driver Information
Initialization time	57
In-process GPU	false
Sandboxed	true
GPU0	VENDOR = 0x8086, DEVICE= 0x0a06
Optimus	false
AMD switchable	false
Driver vendor	Mesa
Driver version	12.1.0
Driver date	
Pixel shader version	3.00
Vertex shader version	3.00
Max. MSAA samples	8
Machine model name	
Machine model version	
GL_VENDOR	Intel Open Source Technology Center
GL_RENDERER	Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
GL_VERSION	OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 12.1.0-devel (git-b010fa8)
GL_EXTENSIONS	GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1 GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888 GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture GL_OES_depth24 GL_OES_element_index_uint GL_OES_fbo_render_mipmap GL_OES_mapbuffer GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8 GL_OES_standard_derivatives GL_OES_stencil8 GL_OES_texture_3D GL_OES_texture_float GL_OES_texture_float_linear GL_OES_texture_half_float GL_OES_texture_half_float_linear GL_OES_texture_npot GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_depth_texture GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_texture_type_2_10_10_10_REV GL_OES_get_program_binary GL_APPLE_texture_max_level GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer GL_EXT_read_format_bgra GL_NV_fbo_color_attachments GL_OES_EGL_image_external GL_OES_EGL_sync GL_OES_vertex_array_object GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5 GL_EXT_texture_rg GL_EXT_unpack_subimage GL_NV_draw_buffers GL_NV_read_buffer GL_NV_read_depth GL_NV_read_depth_stencil GL_NV_read_stencil GL_EXT_draw_buffers GL_EXT_map_buffer_range GL_KHR_debug GL_KHR_robustness GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map GL_OES_surfaceless_context GL_EXT_color_buffer_float GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix GL_EXT_draw_buffers_indexed GL_EXT_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_EXT_polygon_offset_clamp GL_EXT_texture_border_clamp GL_KHR_context_flush_control GL_KHR_robust_buffer_access_behavior GL_OES_draw_buffers_indexed GL_OES_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_OES_sample_shading GL_OES_sample_variables GL_OES_shader_multisample_interpolation GL_OES_texture_border_clamp GL_EXT_blend_func_extended GL_EXT_clip_cull_distance
Disabled Extensions	
Window system binding vendor	Mesa Project
Window system binding version	1.4 (DRI2)
Window system binding extensions	EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import EGL_KHR_create_context EGL_KHR_fence_sync EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image EGL_KHR_image_base EGL_KHR_reusable_sync EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context EGL_KHR_wait_sync EGL_MESA_configless_context EGL_MESA_drm_image EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_export
Direct rendering	Yes
Reset notification strategy	0x0000
GPU process crash count	0
Compositor Information
Tile Update Mode	One-copy
Partial Raster	Enabled
GpuMemoryBuffers Status
ATC	Software only
ATCIA	Software only
DXT1	Software only
DXT5	Software only
ETC1	Software only
R_8	Software only
RG_88	Software only
BGR_565	GPU_READ
RGBA_4444	Software only
RGBX_8888	GPU_READ, SCANOUT
RGBA_8888	GPU_READ
BGRX_8888	GPU_READ, SCANOUT
BGRA_8888	GPU_READ
YVU_420	GPU_READ
YUV_420_BIPLANAR	Software only
UYVY_422	Software only
Log Messages
•	[4334:4342:0327/090723.260249:VERBOSE1:drm_device_manager.cc(54)] : Could not initialize DRM device for /sys/devices/platform/vgem/drm/card1
•	[4334:4342:0327/090723.788144:VERBOSE1:drm_util.cc(224)] : Unable to get cursor width capability: Invalid argument
•	[4334:4342:0327/090723.788936:VERBOSE1:drm_display.cc(102)] : DRM configuring: device=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0 crtc=19 connector=28 origin=0,0 size=1366x768
•	[4334:4342:0327/090724.442591:VERBOSE1:drm_util.cc(224)] : Unable to get cursor width capability: Invalid argument

This is isolated to Google Hangouts. Other websites utilizing audio (YouTube, Pandora, etc.) sound fine.