[Nix-dev] Re: Skype & PulseAudio

[Alexander Tsamutali]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:

> The new Skype has pulseaudio support. You can add pulseaudio to
> buildinputs and Skype wil talk to pulseaudio (only!).
>
> So which should be the default?
>
> I couldn't make my microfone work with Alsa at all because the sampling
> rates didn't match. My sound card records with 100kHz but Skype expects
> 48kHz or such. I couldn't even understand myself.
>
> Of course we can use a configuration option. Which should be default?
> Alsa or Pulseaudio? The latter will work in more cases out of the box
> but it requires the user configuring and starting Pulseaudio.
>
> Thoughts?

I think ALSA should be default. Not all people use
PulseAudio, but almost all people have properly configured ALSA (or
probably ALSA emulation in OSS).


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Alexander Tsamutali