 Skype Issues With Ubuntu 64bit, Sound is staticy |
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 Jul 4 2008, 01:43 PM
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Mr. President  Group: Admin Posts: 2384 Joined: 23-August 04 From: New York Member No.: 1 Operating System: Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu, Debian  |
Alright, yesterday, I decided I would try and give Ubuntu another shot (needed something to write about and mess with), anyway, I realize Google Talk is not an option (tried to install it with Wine - doesn't like it at all), so I installed the next best thing, Skype. I installed the skype-static-oss package, as it seems that one works better with 64bit, it works, I can make calls and talk, however, it's kind of crackly on both ends. It crackles (a little, after messing with settings I got it somewhat decent sounding) when Mandy talks and it will crackle every so often for her regardless if I'm talking or not.
My question is the following, is there any way to setup Skype with ALSA on 64bit Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and would that improve the sound quality if I were able to do so? Also, is there an alternative VOIP client (Jabber server, maybe?) on Linux and Windows that would work better if the above is not an option? Thanks guys! B |
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Jul 7 2008, 11:01 AM
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root Group: Admin Posts: 3080 Joined: 23-August 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 14 Operating System: Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit), Vista Home Premium (32 bit) |
Did you do steps similar to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432295 ?
I've read a ton of good things about OpenWengo |
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Jul 7 2008, 11:59 AM
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Mr. President Group: Admin Posts: 2384 Joined: 23-August 04 From: New York Member No.: 1 Operating System: Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu, Debian |
Thanks Matt. I'll try that again.
Also, I tried to sign up for OpenWengo but it says the service is temporarily offline. Any information regarding that? B |
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Jul 7 2008, 08:52 PM
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Mr. President Group: Admin Posts: 2384 Joined: 23-August 04 From: New York Member No.: 1 Operating System: Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu, Debian |
Got the sound quality much better, however, now I can't play music and be on Skype at the same time.
My mic is a USB condenser mic and my sound card is a Chaintech AV-710. It has to be a configuration issue... the USB and sound card aren't playing nice. B |
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Jul 10 2008, 12:27 AM
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root Group: Admin Posts: 3080 Joined: 23-August 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 14 Operating System: Ubuntu 8.10 (64 bit), Vista Home Premium (32 bit) |
Everything I've read says that Skype just doesn't work well with Linux and that it is known to "require" to be the only application to use your sound card.
Maybe look at http://gizmo5.com/pc/ |
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Jul 10 2008, 08:23 AM
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Mr. President Group: Admin Posts: 2384 Joined: 23-August 04 From: New York Member No.: 1 Operating System: Mac OSX, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Pro, Ubuntu, Debian |
Will look into that Matt. Thanks!
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Jul 11 2008, 09:29 AM
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UberTechie  Group: Linux Experts Posts: 1107 Joined: 31-August 04 From: Great State of Washingtion Member No.: 119 Operating System: Gentoo,Iccaros-Linux(of course),Slackware,GentooX,Red Hat, Windows (3.1 to VISTA BETA), MAC OSX (10.4 currently),LFS, Solaris 8,9,10, Trusted Solaris, FreeBSD, OPENBSD, NETBSD |
this may help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software also note that any SIP software "should" be able to talk to any other SIP software. I use kphone and call up our CISCO SIP phones at work with no issues. (can't call a CISCO call-manager as that uses a proprietary connection) This post has been edited by iccaros: Jul 11 2008, 09:34 AM |
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