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#1 2014-06-25 21:51:25
- rabcor
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[Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
I am aware that Skype 4.3 requires pulseaudio, as much as I dislike pulse, skype is one of the main functions of my laptop to begin with so I decided to bite the bullet.
I installed pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa, lib32-libpulse and lib32-alsa-plugins from the official repositories, configured pulse with pavucontrol and other programs are working (being Teamspeak 3 and Chromium)
Skypes "Sound Devices" settings seems to be detecting pulse properly (mic, speakers and ringing is all set to "PulseAudio server (local)") but no sound comes from skype when I try to make a test sound (nor when I first launch it)
Pavucontrol does not detect Skype as a sound application when it is running. (Neither recording nor playback)
What could be the problem?
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#2 2014-06-25 21:54:10
- jasonwryan
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
x86_64?
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#3 2014-06-25 21:56:14
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
Yes. Might be worth noting I'm on the 3.14 kernel (seems theres new activity in that thread though, i'm gonna try that post on the bottom.)
Edit: I'm on the 3.15 kernel now.
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#4 2014-06-25 22:01:55
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#5 2014-06-25 22:04:28
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
I have pulseaudio-alsa installed.
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#6 2014-06-25 22:06:31
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
Yes, I can read.
Can you?
Also install lib32-libpulse and lib32-alsa-plugins if you run a x86_64 system and want to have sound for 32-bit multilib programs like Wine, Skype and Steam.
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#7 2014-06-25 22:19:44
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
Ah those, sorry. Yeah I also have those two installed (had these even before since one of them is a dependency for skype to begin with) I had skype 4.2 functioning as normal without pulseaudio installed.
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#8 2014-06-27 00:13:24
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Re: [Solved] No sound in Skype 4.3
Fixed it, silly me.
Pulseaudio doesn't pick up Skype as a sound application except for the moments where it is delivering sound (i.e. when I click the make test sound button, it will show skype in the playback list until the sound ends)
Pulseaudio also doesn't seem to have any reliable way of selecting a default device as far as I can tell (and skype didn't let me do this either) I have a headset and intergrated speakers, what was happening was that skype insisted on using the headset for sound (I assume this happened because the headphones mic was the default mic)
It is strange how chromium and teamspeak (both set to use pulse's default devices) correctly used the intergrated speaker and the headphone mic like I wanted whereas skype did not. That's why I hate pulse I guess.
The fix for me in this case was to reconfigure (in pavucontrol) the headphones to "Analog Mono Input" rather than "Analog Stereo Output + Analog Mono Input".
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