-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: den 23 november 2017 23:44 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] [ot] Skype crackling (was: skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update)
On 23/11/17 19:49, Sorin Srbu wrote:
The Skype flatpak at home worked beautifully, that is to say for about
ten
minutes, then the sound (using a Koss SB/45 headset) it started
crackling to
the point of not being usable anymore. I hung up and reconnected, then
sound
was fine, for another ten minutes at which point the crackling returned. Checking the sound prefs, I saw that alsa on the app tab had two
instances,
one stable and one that blinked like crazy, like it was opening and
closing a
few times a second.
On a hunch I downloaded the skype for linux rpm from the link above and installed it with yum. No lib errors! I started it and gave it a go, and - no crackling whatsoever. In fact it worked as good as it gets IMHO.
I think this was a known issue with Skype 8.10 for linux itself as I noticed it when I was looking for answers to the GLIBCXX dependency issue. It looks like the skype-stable repo just got updated to 8.11.0 which fixes both the dependency issue and the crackling one.
Cool, thanks for the heads-up!
Will check this out.
-- //Sorin