Bug 1032326

Summary:	skype and maybe HandBrake don't like the new pulseaudio
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jason Haar <jhaar>
Component:	pulseaudio	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	brendan.jones.it, lkundrak, lpoetter, rdieter
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Description Jason Haar 2013-11-20 01:21:00 UTC

Description of problem:

I installed skype via "yum localinstall skype-4.2.0.11-fc16.i586.rpm". Looked OK but audio didn't work at all. The Sound manager showed skype was talking to pulseaudio - but nothing came out

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How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install skype on F20
2. run
3.

Actual results:

no audio - and no errors from skype or pulseaudio

Expected results:

audio

Additional info:

I fixed it. I found the following doc

http://negativo17.org/handbrake-skype-fedora-20/

So adding an environment variable fixed skype for me and apparently HandBrake for others. 

This is more a "FYI" than a bugreport, but I do wonder if the pulseaudio API should be so vulnerable to such things? Such a trivial fix makes me wonder if this could be generalized as a solution?

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2013-11-20 01:29:54 UTC

Indeed, well-known skype issue, see
http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Crackling-and-unusable-sound-with-pulseaudio-4-0-proposed-fix/td-p/1683361

for a workaround until skype itself is fixed properly