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Bug 473510 - net-im/skype-4.2.0.11 - distorted or no sound with media-sound/pulseaudio-4.0
Summary: net-im/skype-4.2.0.11 - distorted or no sound with media-sound/pulseaudio-4.0
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2013-06-16 16:45 UTC by Krzysztof Magusiak
Modified: 2014-01-07 10:15 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Krzysztof Magusiak 2013-06-16 16:45:12 UTC 
I hear no sounds after updating to pulseaudio 4.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Krzysztof Magusiak 2013-06-16 16:45:30 UTC 
Created attachment 351122 [details]
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Comment 2 Mark R. Pariente 2013-06-17 06:02:41 UTC 
I'm also having problems with net-im/skype-4.2.0.11 and media-sound/pulseaudio-4.0. I can actually hear sounds, but they are quite distorted, played with higher pitch than normal and a lot of static. Having a conversation with another person is borderline impossible because of this. I'm guessing that this build of skype isn't compatible with pulseaudio-4 yet - perhaps the skype ebuilds should RDEPEND on <media-sound/pulseaudio-4 until there is a version which works fine with pulseaudio 4.
Comment 3 Krzysztof Magusiak 2013-06-17 20:04:32 UTC 
Following the discussion in the thread below solved my problem.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164959

What is exactly `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30` and why does it fix the problem?
Comment 4 Julien Sanchez archtester 2013-06-21 09:32:20 UTC 
I have distorted sound with Skype 4.2.0.11 and Pulseaudio 4.0 (I'm using an USB headset).

As a workaround, using `load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0` in /etc/pulse/default.pa fixed my problem (just add tsched=0).

More info can be found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling
Comment 5 Navid Zamani 2013-07-12 22:18:09 UTC 
The workaround with tsched=0 didn’t do anything for me.
Julien Sanchez (comment #4): Can you actually confirm this works for you, or did you just post what you read? (IMO this gets posted too often even though it solves nothing.)

Masking >=pulseaudio-3.99 and installing the old version (here 3.0-r1) did the job though. Calls work as expected again.

But I still get no test sounds anymore. (May be another problem.)(In reply to
Comment 6 Arun Raghavan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-08-02 16:03:50 UTC 
Fixed with 4.2.0.11-r1
Comment 7 Navid Zamani 2013-08-27 13:58:17 UTC 
(In reply to Arun Raghavan from comment #6)
> Fixed with 4.2.0.11-r1

To everyone who still has trouble: Add “tsched=0” to the “load-module module-udev-detect” lines your /etc/pulse/default.pa (and /etc/pulse/system.pa).

This should be included in the patch for pulseaudio (or for skype, if that is possible), by the way. Arun, what’s your opinion on this? (Or should I make a new bug?)
Comment 8 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-07 10:15:01 UTC 
I don't really consider changing the skype desktop file much of a solution.

I was experiencing this bug despite it being "fixed", due to running skype from the CLI, so are others, with possible dupe bug #493068