Today I tried a skype call on my truthful AAO which recently got mint 16 and I was frustrated by the sound crackling/distortion.
It’s not just a problem with Skype, I believe it’s a problem with, you’ve guessed it, PulseAudio.
Workaround? Indeed there is.
Disabling PulseAudio’s Glitch Free Audio seems to have solved the crackling for me.
To do this, edit the /etc/pulse/default.pa file in your favourite text editor.
Search for the following line:
load-module module-hal-detect
and append “tsched=0” to the end:
load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
restart pulse (or just reboot your system), and the crackling should be gone.
Not sure what the side effects are by disabling Glitch Free Audio, but I can’t seem to find any yet.
UPDATE: If you don’t have a line with load-module module-hal-detect, then search for following line:
load-module module-udev-detect
and append “tsched=0” to the end:
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
restart pulse (in terminal pulseaudio -k, pulseaudio –start or just reboot your system), and the crackling should be gone.
Solution found here, all credits goes to them.
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