[LAU] Skype won't work though JACK plugin

Joel Roth joelz at pobox.com
Mon Apr 8 05:03:49 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:57:38AM +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
> On Mon, April 8, 2013 7:54 am, Joel Roth wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Redirecting the ALSA default device to JACK seems to be
> > well-traveled territory,[1,2] nevertheless, I'm not getting
> > all the behaviors I'd like. Flash works, but Skype doesn't,
> > and surprisingly Ecasound doesn't do well either (an
> > interesting data point although hardly a problem.)
> > Perhaps Skype is trying to work via /dev/dsp?
> >
> 
> Skype has pretty advanced Pulseaudio support. why not try the pulse->jack
> sink in PA.

I did play with it a bit today.  It's a lot of
infrastructure just to support the one app that doesn't play
nice.

-- 
Joel Roth


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