[pulseaudio-discuss] [gentoo-user] PulseAudio 1.0-r1 + Skype ==> Garbled output sound

[Jan Steffens]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Spidey / Claudio <spideybr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't tried the masked version, but I follow the PA maillist and
> haven't seen anything like that. I'm forwarding this message to them,
> let's see what they say about it.
> I'll be sure to replicate their messages here in the future.
>
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
> hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr
> Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 22:04, Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As indicated by the subject, after installing PulseAudio-1.0-r1 the
>> microphone output is garbled with Skype (2.2.0.35-r1). Downgrading
>> PulseAudio fixes the problem.
>>
>> To be clear, incoming sound is fine (and any other sounds, AFAICT),
>> the problem is only with outgoing sound.
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this? Any ideas on how to fix it with PulseAudio 1.0-r1?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hilco
>>
>>
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Turns out this issue was introduced with 1.0 because Skype does not
compare the string returned by pa_get_library_version() correctly.
Making it return a tripartite version fixes Skype again. E.g., one
could do the following:


diff --git a/src/pulse/context.c b/src/pulse/context.c
index 25d04a1..6786c4f 100644
--- a/src/pulse/context.c
+++ b/src/pulse/context.c
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ pa_operation* pa_context_set_name(pa_context *c,
const char *name, pa_context_su
 }

 const char* pa_get_library_version(void) {
-    return PACKAGE_VERSION;
+    return PACKAGE_VERSION ".0";
 }

 const char* pa_context_get_server(pa_context *c) {


In any case, Colin should have a patch ready shortly.