Skype: Big delaytime

Ghostryder · Apprentice Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 216

Hi everybody,

I have installed Skype 1.0.0.20. It is working but when I call somebody there are big delaytimes between the words I spoke and the received words. Is there anything to do with alsa? Anything realtime belonging?

Has anybody ever had such a problem? I switche to Windows and voila it worked quite normal. So it cannot depend on the network or any firewall adjustment.

Thanks for your help...

G.

j0elbYte · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:

Hm I also had huge delays and stuff but that was when using arts. You seem to use alsa... Guess you haven't got any delays from other sound sources on the system?

Maybe the mmap function matters here?
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kmare · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

as j0elbYte said, disable arts from the control center. I had the same problem and now skype is playing find. I really think that arts should be replaced in kde...

Ghostryder · Apprentice Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 216

Thanks, I have disabled arts now.

Starting skype gives me the following message:

No running artsd or esd found
Starting skype without sound daemon
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But now there is no Sound at all in KDE... How should I handle that?

tia

eae · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 211

Tell your kde programs to use alsa instead of arts, for ex in the control center "system notifications" tab click on "player settings" and choose another player (alsaplayer maybe). Then check if you can play more than one sound at a time, and if not read this: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php?company=Generic&card=Generic&chip=Generic&module=Generic#softmix