Linux Skype 4.0.0.8 on FreeBSD is works!

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 26 08:56:06 UTC 2013


on 23/06/2013 23:21 Artyom Mirgorodskiy said the following:
> When I call to windows users often did not hear me after minute two last 2
> month. Actually this is what prompted me to get to work Skype 4 on FreeBSD.
> Unfortunately this did not solve the problem with audio, but helped with the
> video after recent changes.

I think that this is a problem with linux alsa lib and potentially our
scheduler.  If there is a long pause between reading or writing an audio buffer,
then a stream gets stuck forever.
Unfortunately I never really did any useful work on this issue:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.multimedia/14892

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Andriy Gapon


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