Skype Garage

bigbrownchunx commented Wednesday, Sep 2

Cool! Well done. Looks like you guys fixed a lot of bugs

Are there any updates to any API calls?

m.gruys commented Wednesday, Sep 2

Very well.
After testing I confirm I am now able to use Pulseaudio-in with my Logitech Pro 4000 USB Webcam on Fedora 11
So now I can finally use Skype with other sound producing applications
There is nothing more to wish for me from Skype
Big Thanks to all the hard working programmers

davidmronis commented Wednesday, Sep 2

I've installed on 2 linux boxes, one has a hda-intel card and works as expected.
The other has a atiixp card and doesn't; basically, I hear (and video works) but my mic volume is too low to be heard. I've played with a mixer to raise the mic levels, but this has no effect. I've also tried the various choiced for the sound device.

This works automatically with 2.0.0.72.

myrizio commented Thursday, Sep 3

No commandline-only client yet?

joel.hansson commented Friday, Sep 4

do you have any plans on impelement tabbed chat windows in the linux client? I became *very* sad when i installed the beta and it wasn't implemented

james_j_catchpole commented Friday, Sep 4

Comments on Skype 2.1, Fedora 11, Pulse Audio

After Installing Skype I was having problems with the microphone;
I discovered that in order to make the Logitech Microphone
work or to make the headset microphone work I had to go
to the Pulse Audio Volume Control Configuration Tab and
set the Internal Audio Profile to 'Output Analog Stereo +
Input Analog Stereo'. At that point I was able to use my microphone
of choice by going to the Pulse Audio Volume Control Input Devices
and choosing whichever microphone I wanted by disabling the one
I didn't want and enabling the one I did want. So, the issue appears
to me that Skype 2.1 is not interfacing with Pulse Audio in a manner that
allows Skype to know what sound options are available and to then set
the Pulse Audio options automatically. I do not know if this is a problem
with Pulse Audio, Skype or both but one cannot expect casual users to
be able to figure this out by themselves. It seems to me that Pulse Audio
should scan the sound devices, build a list of possible options and then
allow an application like Skype to query the options and choose the ones
that it supports and then set the Pulse Audio Options.There is also the
issue having multiple sound devices, for example a USB Headset along with
a BOSE plugged into the analog port so that Skype can be used via the USB
headset and Music could be coming out of the BOSE.

eibriel commented Tuesday, Sep 8

Congratulations!!!!!!
Thats are goods news!!

straka7066 commented Tuesday, Sep 8

So many implemented features and bugfixes, one year of work and still no 64bit Version? Could you explain where the problem is?

mike32547 commented Sunday, Sep 13

recently updated skype 2.1.0.47

I love the new features that are on the windows client
able to edit / remove your own text
change pictures for the title box
see when people are typing

it seems like skype crashes whenever it wants to...
especially when im not receiving or typing any text or making or receivin any calls
is there a database that i can dl the "working skype version" till this one is fixed of bugs?

besides the random crashing

the skype calls are choppy Never had this problem with the other versions of skype

im using pclinuxos 2009 .2

with dbus 1.2.4.4-3pclos2009
qt3 3.3.8-5pclos2007
libalsa2 1.0.21-1pclos2009

Er.... i would debug.. but dont know how?

w.piekutowski commented Monday, Sep 14

Thanks for this new, shiny version!

Greetings from Poland

jeffbl commented Monday, Sep 21

Sound is working much better for me than under 2.0, but whenever I try and receive video (or sometimes when trying to send), Ubuntu Jaunty logs me out instantly. I'm on a Thinkpad x200 running Ubuntu Jaunty 32 bit, with the server kernel so I can have PAE enabled. Any known issues or workarounds?

andersja commented Tuesday, Sep 29

The new skype beta looks awesome. However, having some problems with audio input on Ubuntu 9.04 with a Logitech USB webcam.

In System --> Preferences --> Sound --> Devices tab I have set the correct USB device as my preferred Audio conferencing Sound Capture device and when using the Ubuntu test button, it works fine. However, Skype just records white noise.

sean.astraia.com commented Monday, Oct 12

Yes, I have the white noise problem too.
Sometimes..
Othertimes it has worked. I don't know yet when or why.
But I do see WHEN the problem occurs.

The mic is working fine with other apps (sound recorder) and when I view the level using the pulse audio device chooser, it bounces up and down with the level of the sound in the background, or my voice.
Start skype up, call someone...... they answer and WHAM!!!!
recording levels go crazy in pulseaudio...... full on the left (all static) and empty on the right (soft white noise perhaps) .....

what happens!!! ??

It is reliably failing me. It is in fact in worse condition than it was pre-beta.

Skype developers - I appreciate the effort. And when it works, it is working fine.
But I post my experiences so that you can better fix the problem.
Thanks

sean.astraia.com commented Monday, Oct 12

With the tip provided by 'n5pwp_tux' on the skype forums
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=411431&st=80&p=1968371&#entry1968371

that is, after killing pulseaudio, and restarting it with the -vv option (i have yet to read-up what the option is for)

[CODE]pkill pulseaudio; sleep 2; pulseaudio -vv[/CODE]

Then re-adjusting the volume levels again (because they might be askew since the last problems)

and then restarting skype, seems, so far, to fix the problem. After that, I was able to use skype, the regular beta download (non the static archive). I imagine i'd be able to use the static version too.

Will do more tests later.

k6jrr-1 commented Tuesday, Oct 13

pulseaudio -vv is "verbose verbose". Makes it log more.
I'm seeing some pulseaudio problems in the log once I started skype (I see perms problems with BlueZ but that is probably because my bluetooth isn't configured).
However, the following probably relates to skype:
.... (more of the same left off)
Oct 13 09:37:15 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 8.00 ms
Oct 13 09:37:20 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 188 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:37:29 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 579 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:37:38 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 397 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:37:46 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 298 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:37:53 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 487 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:37:58 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 135 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:38:21 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 554 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:38:26 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 25 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:38:50 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 56 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:38:50 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: alsa-source.c: Increasing minimal latency to 26.00 ms
Oct 13 09:58:35 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 15 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:58:40 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 668 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:58:50 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 294 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:58:50 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: alsa-source.c: Increasing wakeup watermark to 15.99 ms
Oct 13 09:59:22 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 260 events suppressed
Oct 13 09:59:48 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 71 events suppressed
Oct 13 10:01:53 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 178 events suppressed
Oct 13 10:02:31 port4l pulseaudio[2207]: ratelimit.c: 5 events suppressed

hesananoeseinstein commented Friday, Oct 23

Hi, it works like a charm on my Fedora 11. But, reading the bugfixes, it is suposed that there are animated emoticons in Skype for Linux! I've never had (even in previous releases), but I thought they were not implemented. And now I wonder why this feature doesn't work for me?

nickjbyrne commented Friday, Dec 4

I experience the problem

"If a chat message arrives out of order, it can cause Skype to crash in some circumstances."

quite frequently but only when chatting to my fiancée who uses skype for windows (vista) version 3.8.0.188. It's only happened when chatting to her, i believe most other people i chat to use later versions on different platforms. Hopefully that might help you debug and fix this issue.

ultra-fine commented Thursday, Dec 10

Guys, please, release a new (beta) version ASAP, since this beta already requires some hacks (old SSL libraries) in order to run under Fedora 12 Linux.

Also, that would be nice to have a native 64bit Skype.

Thank you!

philip_rhoades commented Wednesday, Jan 20

Tried it out on a Fedora 12 EeePC 900 but with no success - uninstalled PA and went back to ALSA and it works fine. There are also more device options under Sound devices now (only shows "Default" when PA is installed).

Thanks for the update!

Phil.

philip_rhoades commented Wednesday, Jan 20

A follow up question - I would like to be able to record Skype calls (mainly for retrieving remote answering machine messages) - do you have any suggestions about how to do this with Audacity on this Fedora 12 EeePC 900 setup? I have seen some comments that this can't be done with (the old) version of Skype and Audacity?

Thanks,

Phil.

evan-light commented Saturday, Mar 6

Is there anyway to download this previous version of the beta? I installed the new one, which won't startup, and would like to install 2.1.0.47 but can't seem to get my hands on it.

thanks!

purplemecha commented Tuesday, Mar 16

Hi, with the 2.1 beta, Skype shows me as offline to my contacts and offline on the show my status on the web. This happens even when I am online.

sidereal-knight commented Monday, May 24

This beta has problem with writing czech characters like ď, ť, ň... - it means characters you write in that way you must firstly type caron and then the char. In this beta you'll write for example ˇd, ˇt, ˇn, what is uncorrect!!!