Skype sound "scratchy"

[Paul Whittington]

Hardware is a eeepc 1005pe-pu17-bu with 2G RAM.

To create bug:

1) Start Skype and login to your account
2) In Options->Sound Devices press the "Make a test call" button, leaving the "Allow Skype to automatically adjust..." checked
3) Record the call

When the call is played back the audio is "scratchy" with lots of background noise.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ pulseaudio -k && sleep 3 && pulseaudio -vv
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 1.1
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux i686 3.2.0-17-generic-pae #27-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 24 15:59:25 UTC 2012
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: All asserts enabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is df883e1770881dd95adff22a00000020.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is df883e1770881dd95adff22a00000020-1336608134.774446-1396438396.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/ubuntu/.pulse/df883e1770881dd95adff22a00000020-runtime.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/ubuntu/.pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-1.1/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

[Paul Whittington (pwhittin)]

BTW, this is easypeasy 2.0 alpha