PulseAudio sound delay

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And I found the culprit. As usual, it comes down to proprietary software :smiley: Itā€™s Skype messing something up, causing the delay. If I turn it off, everything works just fine.

I found this out by first copying absolutely everything over to a new user and then getting the issue again (since all the session got copied over as well). Then I copied things one by one, and did not copy over the session, and it worked. Then I started one program after another, and surely enough Skype was the one that made the lag appear again.

Although I knew the culprit, there was also a problem in that I canā€™t just uninstall alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit, since that is also needed for Wine (until it gets that native PulseAudio support). So what I did to work around this problem is to use PulseAudio itself to isolate Skype:

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=skype sink_properties=device.description="Skype"

Then I attached Skype to this dummy sink, and thatā€™s that, I have no more delay again. Though Iā€™m not sure if this is going to hold through reboots or notā€¦

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Interesting lol!. Well done for perseverance and a result. Hereā€™s hoping it doesnā€™t return.

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GreatEmerald wrote:
>
> And I found the culprit. As usual, it comes down to proprietary software
> :smiley: Itā€™s Skype messing something up, causing the delay. If I turn it off,
> everything works just fine.
>
> I found this out by first copying absolutely everything over to a new
> user and then getting the issue again (since all the session got copied
> over as well). Then I copied things one by one, and did not copy over
> the session, and it worked. Then I started one program after another,
> and surely enough Skype was the one that made the lag appear again.
>
> Although I knew the culprit, there was also a problem in that I canā€™t
> just uninstall alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit, since that is also needed for
> Wine (until it gets that native PulseAudio support). So what I did to
> work around this problem is to use PulseAudio itself to isolate Skype:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=skype sink_properties=device.description=ā€œSkypeā€
> --------------------
>
> Then I attached Skype to this dummy sink, and thatā€™s that, I have no
> more delay again. Though Iā€™m not sure if this is going to hold through
> reboots or notā€¦
>
>
Did you try this too :-
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/491327-skype-client-opensuse-13-1-rc1-64-bit.html#post2597018

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