Pulseaudio breakage in F11

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 23.04.09 23:28, Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at googlemail.com) wrote:

> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.04.2009, 23:07 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> 
> > And regarding Skype, ever thought of blaming Skype for this situation?
> 
> Yes, but there's not much use in it, because Skype is in trouble and
> they wont spend work on their Linux version.
> 
> > The last time I played with Skype it was basically doing everything
> > wrong they could do wrong with the ALSA API. It's not a particular
> > surprise if it doesn' work on PA.
> 
> Agreed, but when I tell skype to use OSS, my CPU gets up to 50% and
> there is an enormous delay between what I say and the reply from the
> other person. The delay gets bigger and bigger and so does CPU, until PA
> uses 100% and makes my box unusable.
> 
> I think we both agree that whatever uses OSS, PA should not eat all the
> CPU, right?

I am sorry. I don't follow. What does OSS have to do with this? 

Lennart

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