Totem stop playing when I try to call in skype

This behaviour is intentional. If you don't want it, use:

pactl list|grep -B1 -E 'Name.*module-cork'

pactl unload-module X
where X corresponds to the index.

Maybe it is intentionally, but totem gets muted indefinitely and that can't be intended.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Kjell L. <email address hidden> wrote:
> Maybe it is intentionally, but totem gets muted indefinitely and that
> can't be intended.

But is this happening with other applications (i.e., not Skype)?

Only when Skype is on. Allow Skype to automatically set mixer level is set to off as well, to make sure it does not mess up with pulse.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kjell L. <email address hidden> wrote:
> Only when Skype is on. Allow Skype to automatically set mixer level is
> set to off as well, to make sure it does not mess up with pulse.

Then it's going to be very difficult to pin this symptom as a PA bug,
since only Skype appears to tag, and we have no idea what Skype is
doing.

Then how can you design the module cork music on phone?

I'm having this problem too - I am playing a video in Totem when Skype pops up a notification saying someone has logged off / on - this pauses my video - and the video stays paused even after the notifcation has gone away which I dont think should happen - instead shouldn't the pausing only happen for actual incoming / outgoing calls, not the notification sounds? Or shouldnt pulseaudio resume the video after the notification sound has finished?

I am having the same problem, but I have also noticed that the notifications will make a paused video start playing.

« For the media players we fake XF86AudioPause key events to make them pause, which probably everyone agress is a terribly kludgy hack. »

      http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/skype.html#comments

This key will send the play/pause toggle over dbus. So, when the player is already paused it will start to play ...
And if two players are running with one paused and the other playing they will both toggle to the other state.

I think corking should definitely be disabled until they sort it out. The idea is good, but the world isn’t ready yet.

Sorry, wrong link for the quote above. Take this one: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tagging-audio.html#comments

A fix for this is to lower all other sound channel by 10dB and then restore it afterwards. But then it means that pulse need to know when to restore it.

Anyway pulse needs to be smart to know which sound channel it needs to suppress. For example if I watch a movie I do not want it to just suddenly pause my movie or disable the sound. I want to have the choice whether I want to pause or simple deny the call etc.

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Kjell L. <email address hidden> wrote:
> A fix for this is to lower all other sound channel by 10dB and then
> restore it afterwards. But then it means that pulse need to know when to
> restore it.

That's one approach, sure, but given the Karmic schedule, the less
invasive approach (with fewer - i.e., no - regressions) is not to load
module-cork-music-on-phone.

i have this bug too. when i play video through totem and somebody sent message to me in skype, video stops playing.
my system is ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-15-generic, pulseaudio 0.9.15, skype 2.1.0.47

The same for me with rhythmbox. Whenever something in Skype is happening Rhythmbox pauses. Karmic Amd64, 2.6.31-11-generic

The problem is still not fixed and really annoying.

Just unload module-cork-music-on-phone, or use the version of PA in the
ubuntu-audio-dev PPA.

On Oct 9, 2009 8:20 AM, "Doki" <email address hidden> wrote:

The problem is still not fixed and really annoying.

-- Totem stop playing when I try to call in skype
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437638 You recei...

Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed

Bug description: Binary package hint: pulseaudio I have Totem open. When I
open Skype, totem get m...

Thanks I finally could solve the problem by unloading module-cork-music-on-phone and module-x11-cork-request.
I've used pactl list and pactl unload-module <magic id> to find the module id and then to remove them. Is there an easier way to do that?

Check /etc/pulse/default.pa then comment them by #

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:0.9.19-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream bugfix release
  * debian/:
    . {libpulse0,pulseaudio}.shlibs:
    . shlibs{,_pulseaudio}.local:
    . rules: Update for new release
  * debian
    + pulseaudio.dirs:
    . patches/0006-a11y-special-case-disable.patch:
    . pulse-session: Use a system-wide flag to assist in fixing
      alsactl store race.
  * debian/patches/:
    - 0060-backport-c194d.patch: Drop, subsumed by new release
    + 0053-fix-sigsegv-module-bluetooth-device.patch: Don't strcmp
      uninitialized memory (LP: #437293)
    + 0055-backport-alsa-bt-position-fixes-b3592a1.patch: Apply the
      following changesets from origin/master HEAD for fixes:
      40c1ca76c48147c7648e1f1a72cc2c747f3d0c9b,
      7b682c969025845f75cbc74a9f830ad2dec8a415,
      c96d2d1117a7e59b351358c8cdd79ef465ddbd49,
      b3592a160f0d2a28605048a81c0261bf7c45acbb
    + 0091-dont-load-cork-music-on-phone.patch: Disable for Karmic;
      it's confusing users (LP: #437638)
  * Previous uploads resolved Launchpad bug reports:
    - LP: #434003 (crashed with SIGILL in pa_smoother_translate() )
    - LP: #437638 (cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate)

 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:40:38 -0400

since this update pulseaudio feature doesn't work as it should, TO STOP
PLAYING MUSIC WHEN SOMEONE CALLS YOU. It works perfect with empathy until
regression came out

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Pako <email address hidden> wrote:
> since this update pulseaudio feature doesn't work as it should, TO STOP
> PLAYING MUSIC WHEN SOMEONE CALLS YOU. It works perfect with empathy until
> regression came out

Except that in many instances MUSIC DOESN'T RESUME ONCE THE CALL ENDS.

In other words, stop shouting. I put the rationale for the change in
the changelog for PulseAudio.