strange sound distortion every few calls

[Tobias Schulz]

Every few calls, the sound suddenly is grossly distorted. Closing Skype and opening it again (the process was terminated) does not fix this issue, only a reboot does.

For an example on how it sounds, please check the attachments.

[Tobias Schulz (tobias-schulz186)]

More information:

- The bug appears on both raring and saucy
- it doesn't matter whether I use the internal intel soundcard (7 Series/C210 Series Chipset, driver=snd_hda_intel) or the USB soundcard included in a Logitech H360 headset
- it doesn't matter whether pulseaudio runs as a user or system service
- it happens at every volume level

The attached distortion examples have been recorded using skype-call-recorder (http://atdot.ch/scr/).

[shankao (shankao)]

This could be a duplicate of #787772

[shankao (shankao)]

There is a new upstream skype version available (4.2.0.13) that could address this problem. Can anybody affected by it, try it, and report if it improves the situation? Thanks!