[PlanetCCRMA] Skype + PlanetCCRMA

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Sep 19 02:45:02 2006


On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:08:26 +0100, Charles Fox wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had sucess getting Skype to run on the planet in a way that 
> doesn't disturb the rest of the audio tools?
> 
> Last time I looked Skype was only available for OSS, no ALSA or JACK -- I 
> heard there's a warpper somewhere that makes ALSA look like OSS but I'm 
> not sure how to do this -- even better would be a JACK interface so Skype 
> could go through the same audio system as everything else (then you could 
> for example mix your rosegarden outputs through skype to discuss and 
> listen to your lastest tracks with your mates -- cubase users eat your 
> heart out...)

The latest skype does use ALSA, but you may have to go with a beta.

- Steve