{"id":1172,"date":"2014-08-19T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T17:56:20","slug":"skype-linux-when-the-fix-becomes-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Skype \/ Linux – When the Fix Becomes the Problem.. (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been running a ‘fixed’ version of Skype on my Linux systems for some time (Fedora 20<\/strong>, x86_64), which included ‘PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30’ in a skype<\/strong> script to run the executable (skype-bin)..<\/p>\n

Recently, I have experienced garbled and ‘sped up’ sound, and this was easily demonstrated using the Skype Test Call<\/em> facility..<\/p>\n

The solution to this used to be the one that I was already using – to run skype<\/strong> with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 – but I now found that this appeared to be actually causing<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the latest problem, and skype<\/strong> worked just fine without<\/span> it!<\/p>\n

The solution is simple – to just remove the script, and rename skype-bin executable back to to skype..<\/p>\n

It would appear that the engineers at Skype may have finally fixed the Linux problem, themselves?<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 August 19, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0\u00a0 It has been confirmed that – at last – the Skype executable has been fixed, to work correctly with pulseaudio..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And..\u00a0 although the script caused a problem on both of my systems, it has been reported that on other systems it made no difference, and still worked OK..\u00a0\u00a0 (see comments below..)
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RG.\u00a0 Aug 26.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been running a ‘fixed’ version of Skype on my Linux systems for some time (Fedora 20, x86_64), which included ‘PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30’ in a skype script to run the executable (skype-bin).. Recently, I have experienced garbled and ‘sped up’ sound, and this was easily demonstrated using the Skype Test Call facility.. The solution to this used to …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,15,19,20],"tags":[897,893,242,895,896,892,894,1175],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-executable-only","tag-garbled-sound","tag-linux","tag-pulse_latency_msec","tag-remove-fix","tag-skype","tag-sped-up","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}