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evaliauka

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Registered: 2011-08-25

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

The problem is as follows:

When skype plays his notification sound, sound volume in totem is going down to zero. When skype notification sound is finished, totem volume is back. I can distinctly see this process in the last tab of gnome sound settings.
I use the following softwate:

# pacman -Qqs alsa
alsa-lib
alsa-plugins
alsa-utils
gnome-alsamixer
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-alsa-plugins
pulseaudio-alsa

# pacman -Qqs gstreamer
clutter-gst
gnome-video-effects
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-bad
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-good
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins
gstreamer0.10-ugly
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
perl-gstreamer
totem

# pacman -Qqs pulse
lib32-libpulse
libao
libcanberra-pulse
libpulse
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-alsa

I have no extra configurations for any of this packages. All packages are up to date.
The problem is only between skype and totem. Skype doesnt conflict with gmusicbrowser, flash players.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by evaliauka (2012-06-30 11:01:22)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

Try to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and add (or edit the commented line that is already there)

flat-volumes = no

then kill pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k) and let it restart by itself or start it manually.

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evaliauka

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Registered: 2011-08-25

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

No, that didn't help.
BTW: I suppose this problem is related to the 4th skype only. I have it on both my laptops. I'd better switch to vlc until the problem will be resolved.

micke234115

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

I have the same problem with skype and spotify.

R00KIE

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

Did you check the wiki? Specifically this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sk … nd_sources

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evaliauka

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Registered: 2011-08-25

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

Thank you!

Commenting out module-role-cork in default.pa helped.

Jejel59

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Skype notification sound breaks sound in totem

Hi,
I have actually the same problem, but apparently pulseaudio has changed since the last solution above because my file /etc/pulse/default.pa is not the same.
There is no longer module-cork-music-on-phone module, and load-module module-role-cork is already commented out.
Does someone have the same issue? Is there another solution?
Thanks in advance!