Skype on FreeBSD - distorted sound - Please help to solve

[Ariff Abdullah]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:41:36 +0800
Michael and Mary David <michael-and-mary at cutlets.info> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> This is Michael David and am new to this list. I have successfully
> installed FreeBSD 6, 6.1 Beta 4 and PC BSD on my PC at different
> times. However with all these, there is one application that is
> really troublesome - SKYPE.
> 
> I installed Skype from ports - Skype starts up successfully, I can
> make calls, both myself and the other party can talk and hear each
> other - however sound is terribly distorted.
> 
> My PC specs are:
> 
> 2.0 GHz Celeron
> 512 MB RAM
> Creative Sound Blaster Live - emu10k1
> 
> I do not have this problem with other applications - xmms, mplayer
> etc all work fine and with good sound clarity.
> 
> Please do kindly let me know how to solve this problem of distorted
> sound with SKYPE.
> 
> Please help me.
> 

Try to increase default buffersize, put it in your /boot/device.hints

  hint.pcm.0.buffersize=xxxxx  (8192 , 16384, 32768, 65536, choose)

You need to reload snd_emu10k1 sound driver module, or reboot. Unless
the problem solved, please give us following informations (refer to
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BUG_REPORT ).


--
Ariff Abdullah
FreeBSD
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/attachments/20060327/fd419291/attachment.pgp