I’m having issues with my microphone in Skype (v4.3). The microphone either doesn’t pick up any noise, or the playback from skype is barely audible and very choppy and faint. I’ve checked that the microphone itself works by using
arecord -vv -fdat foo.wav
and the resulting foo.wav contains a perfectly audible recording. I’ve tried going through a number of blog posts referencing skype and opensuse problems, and I’ve tried a few things (disabling pulseaudio, changing latency of skype from launch,etc.), but nothing has worked so far. If anyone has any ideas/workarounds they’ve discovered, please let me know. I can supply any additional input or information that would help.
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> click on “display unstable packets”
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> click on " 1 click install" of “home:winsky:skype”
I’ll ask a question regarding this packages because I’ma bout to install
skype as well… I’ve seen then, but I don’t understand the choices in there.
In skype there are :
I use KDE and for Skype I installed and use the application pavucontrol to ensure my Mic is not muted. Typically Skype will auto control the Mic record levels.
wrt the Skype installation, to ensure I had all the necessary support packages installed, I followed this guide for openSUSE-13.1 : Skype - openSUSE Wiki