[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 89158] When testing a Skype installation (using Skype's Test Call), there is no pavucontrol facility to specify "Use webcam microphone". (default is 'builtin mic')

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89158

--- Comment #4 from David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> ---
> I see here that Mageia's Skype is not the only one affected by pulseaudio's 
> bizarre handling of webcam microphone input (UBUNTU report):

The link you posted is from 2011. The unity-control-center sound rework was
released in 2012 (for Ubuntu 12.04).

>  In a situation when it has found the USB webcam's microphone (it shows its 
> input strength in Input Devices's 'blue-line' meter), why does pulseaudio 
> persist in using the PC's unplugged mic input line instead of the webcam's (or 
> at least offering the choice in a civilised way)?
> That's what is wrong here.

Yeah. I'm sometimes working on improving the routing so that this (and other
problems) would be fixed, but progress is slow as PulseAudio's internal objects
aren't really organised in a good way for this type of routing to be easy to
do.

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