fedora14 skype sound cracks

saavik · 04-05-2011, 03:21 PM

Hello !

I am having some trouble with my skype at fedora14 using pulsaudio.

Everything works fine until I start skype.

After skype is running, I have a really bad sound. Cracking all the time.

When I do

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pulseaudio -k

everything is fine again.

Seems to me, that e.g. xmms uses pulsaudio but skype does not. Could it be it talks direkt to alsa ?

I tried uninstalling alsa-pulsaudio-plugins but it did not help.

Some sides/users mentioned to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf :

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default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 10

But that did not solve the problem.

After that i wanted to start skype with pulseaudio susspended,

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pasuspender skype

but that also killed all audio in skype as it is configured to use puls ( btw is it even possible to use skype without puls ?)

Does anybody have skype installed and sound without cracks ?

If so, how does that work.

I even adjust the sample rate but it did not change a thing. There is some flame going on in the skye forum (http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=345441&st=40) but all that does not help.

Some more links i found:

http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=118785

http://www.abhizworld.com/software-r...bit-fedora-10/

http://fedoraunity.org/Members/fenri...nd-workarounds

http://abouttech.bplaced.net/2010/06...udio-und-alsa/

http://gss-konstanz.de/8-kerne-und-n...fur-gstreamer/

http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=213711

So you can see i invested some time in that problem.

That maybe shows why it is not to easy: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...io-diagram.svg

foottuns · 04-06-2011, 05:41 AM

is it 32 bits or 64?

saavik · 04-06-2011, 06:14 AM

64 ! sorry forgot that:

Quote:

[root@~]# uname -a
Linux 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 07:06:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@ ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
[root@ ~]# rpm -aq | grep skype
skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586
[root@travelmate ~]# rpm -aq | grep alsa
report-config-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-firmware-1.0.24.1-1.fc14.noarch
alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.24.1-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-lib-1.0.24-1.fc14.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.22-1.fc13.x86_64
report-plugin-localsave-0.20-1.fc14.x86_64
alsa-utils-1.0.23-3.fc14.x86_64

foottuns · 04-06-2011, 06:23 AM

try this tutorial and see if u have these apps installed for skype.

http://wporta.wordpress.com/2011/02/...ra-14-64-bits/

saavik · 04-06-2011, 06:43 AM

Uninstalled everything and did it as discribed on the web page:

Same bad sound.

saavik · 04-06-2011, 01:16 PM

And: no, the new Skype

skype-2.2.0.25-fc10.i586

does not solve the problem.

Seems for me not to be a problem with pulsaudio in general as it does not only appear with skype.

Let`s google that.

merilius · 05-21-2011, 07:40 AM

Fedora 14 x86_64 with skype 2.2 here.
Everything works fine apart from skype.
I figured out that in pulseaudio volume control when you go to the config tab and choose a different
speaker configuration it gets better (or sometimes worse)
In my case for analog stereo the sound is pretty bad, but for 5.1 it is completely fine, and for 4.1 it is the worst of all.

Don't know if this is a skype or pulseaudio bug. But it looks as if it a functional workaround (for me at least).