Skype with Pulseaudio, mic fast, distorted

beej · 2014-07-18 03:32:15

So I'm doing the PA install so I can use Skype (for work).

Unfortunately, when I record a test call, it plays back in about 20% the time it should, with lots of data chopped out, like an insane robot. Having Skype autoset the levels doesn't seem to make any difference.

I do have a workaround: I open pavucontrol AND go to either the Playback or Recording monitoring panels. After that I can switch to any other panel on pavucontrol. As long as pavucontrol stays running, Skype will record correctly (actually it's a little crackly, but that's likely a different issue than insane-unintelligible-choppy-bot.) If pavucontrol is closed when the call starts, skype will NOT record correctly.

arecord works correctly. audacity works correctly. pavucontrol sees audacity. My sound hardware supports the pulseaudio default sample rate of 44100.

Does this make any sense to any of you PA gurus? I'd love to avoid the hackish workaround if I could.

Installed:

pulseaudio
pulseaudio-alsa
lib32-libpulse
lib32-alsa-plugins

Soukyuu · 2014-07-18 13:08:20

Did you try the workarounds described in the wiki already? All I know is that I had to mess around a lot before I got skype to work. I think I also installed lib32-libsamplerate and somewhere around that step the sound finally worked normally.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-07-18 03:32:15

Skype with Pulseaudio, mic fast, distorted

#2 2014-07-18 13:08:20

Re: Skype with Pulseaudio, mic fast, distorted

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