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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:23 am    Post subject: [Solved] Skype. No sound capture. Reply with quote

Hi!
I didn't use Skype for a long time and yesterday I found that the Skype doesn't capture a voice from microphone.
The microphone itself works good, I hearing my voice in speakers and can adjust a volume as needed.
Skype's setup has a number of capturing devices options, I've tried all of them, but still no sound capture from microphone.
What's wrong with Skype?
Any suggestions?


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the problem is not your microphone.

the problem is skype and pulseaudio. i had also the same problem.

solution:

1) emerge -1 skype

2) rm -Rf ~/.pulse

3) start skype and check if skype use pulseaudio in audiosetting.

4) restart skype
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had this problem a few times recently, too. I found that, if I launch PulseAudio Volume Control and mute/unmute the microphone or speakers a few times, Skype begins to work again.

I don't know if it is related or not to your problem, but something else that I found I need to do to get PulseAudio working properly with Skype these days is to disable the so-called PulseAudio 'glitch-free' mode (which is anything but glitch-free in my case). I edited the file /etc/pulse/default.pa and changed the line:

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load-module module-udev-detect

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load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@ nenemsis5

Thanks for reply!
Unfortunately it doesn't helps.
After emerge pulse didn't appears in skype audio settings.
I do not remembering that I installed pulse or had "USE=pulse" option enabled.
emerge --info | grep pulse shows nothing.
But ~/.pulse directory exists. On remove this directory appears again.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

@ Fitzcarraldo:

I have no /etc/pulse directory at all. Mute/unmute does nothing...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

try to unmerge skype and remerge. i had solve the problem in this way.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Solved. Alsa Mixer was configured in wrong way (missing "Input Source" chanel).
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:37 pm    Post subject: Cannot emerge skype Reply with quote

Hi,

I am very new with Gentoo. I had the same problem: my usb speakers with microphone connected via USB works very well with Audacity (alsa) but doesn't work at all with Skype. I tried the solution:

nenemsis5 wrote:
the problem is not your microphone.

the problem is skype and pulseaudio. i had also the same problem.

solution:

1) emerge -1 skype

2) rm -Rf ~/.pulse

3) start skype and check if skype use pulseaudio in audiosetting.

4) restart skype


But at the first point I receive answer: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "skype".

What to do with this?
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