Re: [Alsa-user] strange behavior with skype

[John H. <jc...@th...>]

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi,
> I think pulseaudio is your problem.
> Remove it and switch to alsa output. 
> HTH.
> halim
>
>   
That's a little extreme.   I haven't tried skype with the Fedora 10 
pulseaudio (which is supposed to be a lot better) but I generally tell 
skype to use a plughw device rather than the (default) pulse device.   
Fedora 9's pulseaudio was a bit poor when it came to converting 8kHz 
mono to 44.1kHz stereo.

The alternative would be to use jack and have different, but arguably 
more interesting, problems :-)

jch
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> On Di, Dez 09, 2008 at 10:45:43 +0800, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
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>> I have recently had strange behavior show up with skype. I recently upgraded
>> to Intrepid and finally have recording ability with my HD Intel sound card.
>> (Grrrr) Previously I had to use a Turtle Beach Micro USB sound card to use
>> programs like skype.
>>
>> Now, I can record using the Sound Recorder program as well as Audacity and
>> so forth. Seems to work fairly well. However, when I set up Skype the other
>> day, I had to fiddle with the audio settings in order for it to make a call.
>> But when I make a test call, my voice played back to me sounds low and
>> weird, and starts to break up.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what is going on, and how to check for the
>> problem.
>>
>> When I first bought this machine (over a year and a half ago now) I had no
>> sound at all and learned a lot about alsa and sound cards, but I have had
>> basic sound since 7.04, and good sound since Gutsy, just no recording. I had
>> given up trying to get recording to work, and had purchased the USB sound
>> card. However, now that my sound card seems to be better supported, I am
>> interested in getting it working well, but have forgotten most of what I
>> learned over a year ago.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. I haven't tried it with other VoIP programs
>> yet, but so far the sound distortion I am hearing seems to be only in Skype.
>> Maybe this is a Skype issue primarily, but if any of you have any ideas,
>> they would be deeply appreciated.
>>
>> Matthew
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