'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 10/08/09 20:36 did gyre and gimble:
On Tue, 11.08.09 05:25, Patrick Shirkey ([email protected]) wrote:
That Skype is a mess is not really anything free software folks can do
anything about. It's closed source. The Linux version is barely
maintained and does about everything wrong that it can do wrong. I
know that some folks believe that Skype's incompat with PA is my
problem. But quite frankly, it is not. It's Skype's problem.
It's not actually. It's the users problem because when they use skype
they can't use pulseaudio. Unless of course they have a second sound
device such as a usb phone. I personally do have one and maybe it should
be recommended as the correct way to use skype on a Linux Audio
system.
Hmm, not sure why having a second audio device should solve any
problems Skype has with PA. Everything Skype can do with the second
audio device it should be able to do with the first.
I think it's more to do with letting pulseaudio use the first device and
letting skype use the second device directly (e.g. not going through
pulse) which, through luck or pixie dust, works fine.
Col
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