[pulseaudio-discuss] Jack, pulse, skype and google talk

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, March 18, 2013 6:07 pm, Bearcat Şándor wrote:

> I have jack loaded most of the time and it works great with pulseaudio now
> (for the most part). It's very convenient not to have to switch back and
> forth.

Yes it is doing really well.

> However skype and googletalk don't behave. Skype seems to grab on to

At least they don't behave as expected.

> pulseaudio and neither one of them see my bluetooth headset. Would guess
> that with qjackctrl running things would need to be put though jack first.
> That's what the jack plugin in the asound setup is for yes?

>From my understanding of pulse/alsa/jack, that makes sense. When pulse
starts, it tries to obtain all audio devices. That would include the BT
headset. I don't know how many audio devices you have installed, but
probably three, two at least. I suspect that with jack running, pulse is
either set to use jacksink as the default output, or the device jack owns.

pulse probably owns the BT HP, so to make skype use that, set the pulse
default to the BT HP before starting skype, or change the inputs and
outputs after skype connects. This can be done from pavucontrol. If you
want skype to be able to directly use the BT HP, turn that device OFF in
pulse and set skype to use ALSA.

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Len Ovens
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