OSS VoIP software (Skype, TeamSpeak) via PulseAudio

ESD/GNOME via PulseAudio was easy to figure out: just make sure your login/logout/etc. sounds are no bigger than 1 MiB, not 1MB as some claim. You could use “pactl upload-sample ” to test and make sure PulseAudio’d like the sound. That was easy enough to figure out. Then Skype came along and showed me the [...]

PulseAudio Pwns

(Aren’t acronyms alliterations cool!?) I just installed PulseAudio using a few well-written pages (as is usual in the Gentoo world). Within minutes I was able to set up a stable system with very little tweaking. My favorite features are: Individual application volume control Everything works together. Now I can use TeamSpeak, listen to music, and [...]