[pulseaudio-discuss] Soundcard with hardware mixer

[Malte Gell]

Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote


> I don't know. Pulseaudio doesn't use hw mixing even if it's available.
> But hw mixing should allow you to run Skype and Pulseaudio side by side
> so that Skype doesn't go through Pulseaudio. I can imagine that there
> could be some advantage of a setup like that, but no idea how
> significant the advantage would be. But if this is a networking issue,
> hw mixing won't help a bit.

Ok, I now use some settings from 
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Configuration_of_the_ALSA_PulseAudio_plugin
and Skype output sounds more fluent now, especially with load-module module-
hal-detect tsched=0

Malte