Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst 
It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to
audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them
and they can't hear you.


2014-06-23 16:42 GMT+02:00 Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com:

 Hello,

 Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can
 tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works.

 Manolo

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Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Manolo Martínez 
On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
 It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to
 audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them
 and they can't hear you.

That makes sense :) What a drag...

Thanks,
Manolo

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Nathan R. DeGruchy 
Part of their announcement was that they now rely directly on PA, dropping ALSA:

http://blogs.skype.com/2014/06/18/skype-4-3-for-linux/

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Subject: Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
 It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything 
 related to audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you 
 can't hear them and they can't hear you.

That makes sense :) What a drag...

Thanks,
Manolo

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Kevin Ott 
On Monday, June 23, 2014 05:17:48 PM Manolo Martínez wrote:
 On 06/23/14 at 04:57pm, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
  It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to
  audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them
  and they can't hear you.
 
 That makes sense :) What a drag...
 
 Thanks,
 Manolo

If you would still like to use Skype it is possible to set PulseAudio up as a
temporary pipe to ALSA [1].

[1] 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_minimal_unintrusive_dumb_pipe_to_ALSA

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Manolo Martínez 
 
 If you would still like to use Skype it is possible to set PulseAudio up as a
 temporary pipe to ALSA [1].
 
 [1] 
 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_as_a_minimal_unintrusive_dumb_pipe_to_ALSA

That's very useful. I wish I could convince my dad to switch to some
other, less obnoxious piece of software, but that would take more time,
I think.

Thanks.
M

Re: [arch-general] Skype and PA

2014-06-23 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera 
On 2014-06-23 16:57, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
 It works (the application starts and you can chat), but anything related to
 audio does not work. So when you are calling someone you can't hear them
 and they can't hear you.
 

I also noticed this message when UNINSTALLING skype, which I found a
bit confusing/odd.

The above should also be clarified a bit more.

 
 2014-06-23 16:42 GMT+02:00 Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com:
 
  Hello,
 
  Pacman warns that Skype 4.3 only works with Pulseaudio. As far as I can
  tell, that is not true. I don't use PA, and Skype works.
 
  Manolo
 
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Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
A: No, it doesn't make sense.
Q: Should I include quotations *after* my reply?


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