Hello,

Followed the tips on the few "Skype" threads around but I am still having issues with sound recording...

Audio recorder works ok (althought the recording playback is very low level/weak)

In Skype, no matter what microphone I use, the playback (once Skype replays what you jus said) is awful, suttering a lot, kinda like a bad reception on a cell phone.

Tried all the different settings in Sound Preferences and Multimedia selector.
My settings the following:

In system -> Preference -> Multimedia Systems Selector:
Default output:
Plugin: Custom
Device: none
Pipeline:halaudiosink udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8_sound_card_0_oss_pcm_0_0

Default Input:
Plugin: Custom
Device: None
Pipeline: halaudiosrc udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27d8_sound_card_0_oss_mixer__1

In system -> Preference -> Sound Preferences:
HDA Intel ALC269 Analog (OSS) for sound events/Music and Movies/Audio Conferencing. Playback and Capture. (for some reason I have two of these that show in the drop down list).
HDA Intel (Alsa Mixer) for Default Mixer Tracks.


System is a Eee 900a - 4 Gb SSD - 1 Gig ram. Running Skype "stand alone" 2.0.0.72

Help please

ps: Worst case, is there an alternative to Skype? Pidgin and Amsn do not support sound with Windows based MSN...

Hi,

Thanks for the tip on dealing with Skype audio problem...

However, now I have an issue with the e-mic... it is not working at all, neither in Skype nor Sound Recorder.

What can I do about it? Thanks for helping.

Hi,

Thanks for the tip on dealing with Skype audio problem...

However, now I have an issue with the e-mic... it is not working at all, neither in Skype nor Sound Recorder.

What can I do about it? Thanks for helping.

Hi,
try this in console:

1. Code:
   arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd blah.wav
   
   To record on the first found sound card main channel. Then speak while its recording, and press ctrl-C when finished.
   then use
2. Code:
   aplay -D plughw:0,0 blah.wav

To hear it. If this doesnt work, then your mic settings are not correct.
It is possible to control the mixer from the console. I will use these commands instead of the gui tools, because here I can be sure they should work.

sets the microphone to 100 volume and unmutes recording.

To set the output volume to 100 and unmute playback channel, one of these two at least is required. Using both doesnt hurt.

After these commands you can try from step 1 again.

If you get it to work, choose something like hw:Cardname, 0 in Skype as the sound device for playback and recording. It should work well in Skype too.
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Vermind

didn't help
recording is still garbled
didn't have this problem with ubuntu eee - can we copy the settings from ubuntu eee?

I have applied all the steps and they work great.
In skype I make a test sound and it works.
The test call, however, doesn't repeat my words.
Am I making the test call properly?
I click on the phone icon, talk, then press the phone icon again. I don't hear anything.
Could it be that my port is being blocked by my isp? It happens with bittorrent and amule.
Hummm. Dunno. Weirderer and weirderer.