[pulseaudio-discuss] F*** skype

[Weedy]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Arun Raghavan
<arun.raghavan at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

............. I'm not sure how I missed the -r1

>>> Unpacking skype-4.2.0.11.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/net-im/skype-4.2.0.11-r1/work/skype-4.2.0.11 ...
 * Applying skype-4.2.0.11-desktop.patch ...
                                    [ ok ]

Thanks.