[pulseaudio-discuss] F*** skype

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 23:39 -0400, Weedy wrote:
> So after my last email I changed the way emerge/gcc compiles
> pulse/alsa to use MINIMAL flags (not even -march=native) and nothing
> crashes anymore.
> 
> The last thorn in my side is skype. When skype starts it's loging
> sound seems to get stuck somewhere and never plays. Event sounds like
> messages sent/received seem to corrupt some buffer somewhere and never
> stop playing. During calls my USB mic will die and I have to switch to
> a hardwired mic. If skype starts when I don't have another stream
> running (mpd native pulse, or say youtube over alsa plugin) all
> sounds/sources will have constant pops and crackles until I close
> skype and any other sources and start it after.

Have you looked at this?
http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/

-- Arun