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Skype with pulseaudio has no sound #788
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A related issue... skype is a 32-bit program; asound.conf includes an alsa module for pulseaudio, which will be only 64-bit in x86_64. |
Arch issue that may be related: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163916 |
Similar discussion, in Spanish: http://www.esdebian.org/foro/49496/sonido-distorsionado-skype |
Ok, I fixed this locally following the instructions in the forum posts above:
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Also getting this one. @viric should I try |
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 05:11:49AM -0700, Domen Kožar wrote:
uh? I don't know much about pulseaudio. Go on fixing, and if something breaks, |
Direct link to explanation of @viric's fix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling (Adding tsched=0 fixed my skype audio issues too.) |
More info about pulseaudio timer-based scheduling (which is disabled with tsched=0): http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html And a workaround for skype (instead of using tsched=0 which affects everyone): http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/ Basically, |
Fixed with b5c1d18 |
See http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/ Relevant bug reports: NixOS#788 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35690 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50510 We don't want to disable pulseaudio timer-based scheduling (tsched=0) because that affects everyone. It seems this is the proper distro fix for skype + pulseaudio at the moment.
It used to work; in nixpkgs 2e57a16 it doesn't work, with pulseaudio. It either produces noise, or no sound at all.
pavucontrol 2.0 doesn't show the skype stream.
Disabling 'pulseaudio' in the nixpkgs skype parameter, it also does not work here.
Disabling QT_PLUGIN_PATH, and other PLUGIN paths, doesn't improve anything.
In a system with 'hardware.pulseaudio' disabled, the default nixpkgs skype works fine (with a crash at exit, mentioned in #788.
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