Bug 15725

Summary:	Audio stops momentarily when skype messages are displayed.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jude Ashvin Lobo Shenoy <ashvinlobo>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jude Ashvin Lobo Shenoy 2015-04-17 18:38:29 CEST

I have skype minimized in the systray. I play music using juk player. Now when a skype contact comes online or goes offline or if i get a skype message the music that plays on juk or amarok, stops till the message status box disappears. this is not in the case of my suse 13.2 installation. This gets irritating if you are watching a movie and someone comes or goes offline, vlc pauses then i have to unpause it. If i need to watch a movie i have to exit skype and this may prevent me from receiving some urgent messages.

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-31 22:54:13 CEST

If someone else can reproduce the issue, it would be good to add a note to Errata.

CC: (none) => mageia, mageia
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO FOR_ERRATA
Severity: normal => major

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2015-06-01 19:14:18 CEST

I can reproduce it on Mageia 5.

Comment 3 Colin Guthrie 2015-06-01 19:21:03 CEST

This is a bug in Skype incorrectly identifying it's "notification" sounds as "VOIP" sounds, which causes the "music" to be muted.

If you look in "pactl list" when the skype notification sound is playing you will see media.role = voip in the property list.

Sadly there is not much we can do to fix this. It's a bug in a close source application.

If users do not want this, they should edit their default.pa to not load the module-role-cork module (which by default will cork (i.e. pause or mute) "music" streams when "voip" streams appear.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-02 10:00:26 CEST

Reopening until we added a note in the Errata (with the workaround). Granted, this is an upstream bug, but better talk about it to have somewhere to point at when users encounter the bug.

Please close afterwards.

Comment 5 Colin Guthrie 2015-06-02 10:12:22 CEST

Fair enough but this has been the case for at least three MGA releases...

Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-02 10:24:51 CEST

Oh, if it's not a regression then let's not add it to Errata then.

Whiteboard: MGA5TOO FOR_ERRATA => MGA5TOO

Comment 7 Colin Guthrie 2015-06-02 10:27:19 CEST

Yeah, definitely not a regression. It's been like that for years. Sadly my Skype developer contact no longer works there, so it's a bit of a brick wall still.