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FS#17948 - [skype] mic gives digital noise instead of voice

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by va jorie (vajorie) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 18:18 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 22:44 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When I try to speak to someone using skype-2.1.0.81-2, the receiving party hears "digital" noise (my voice being converted into incomprehensible digital-sounding noise) instead of what I am saying. Makes skype unusable. Downgrading to the previous version, skype-2.1.0.47-2, fixes the problem.

You can probably not fix this, skype being proprietary and all, but I thought I should note it here.


Steps to reproduce:
1. call skype testing service
2. record test sound
3. listen back to weird noise

Hardware info:

Acer Aspire One D250
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
module: snd-hda-intel (modprobe.conf entry: "options snd-hda-intel model=acer-aspire")
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 22:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  As has been pointed out, skype is closed source so we can't do much. However, if you do some searching on google there are a few possible workarounds you can try...
Comment by Federico Chiacchiaretta (baghera) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 18:40 GMT
Open alsamixer and set your mic volume to have dB gain = 0 , this fixed strange noises here (though not with this upgrade).
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 21 January 2010, 18:51 GMT
heh, skype is closed source so we can't do much about it.

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