Teamspeak sound output crackling

[andy3645]

I'm running Teamspeak using the aoss command, my mic doesn't work if i dont use aoss. (ubuntu gutsy)

Other people on teamspeak crackly, as is the voice saying "connection established" etc. My music isn't crackly, nothing else that i know of it, only teamspeak. It makes it very hard to understand people talking - when i talk to them they inform me everything is fine. I'm not fussed if i only have to have teamspeak running and no other audio, i just want teamspeak working right.

Does anybody have a fix?

[spadewarrior]

I've got a similar problems with the crackling. I found that it seems to help a bit if I switch the quality up and down a few times, but this isn't a definitive fix and doesn't really make much sense. I wish the Linux version was as polished as the windows one.

[{-Delta-}]

You can try adding this to your .asoundrc file:

pcm.card0 {
        type hw
        card 0
        mmap_emulation true
}

pcm.!playback {
        type dmix 	# dmix plugin for mixing the output
        ipc_key 1234	# an uniqe number
      slave {
        pcm "card0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 8192
        rate 44100
        }
bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
        }
}

pcm.!capture {
        type dsnoop	# dsnoop plugin for input
        ipc_key 5678	# another uniqe number
       slave {
        pcm "card0"
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        rate 44100
        }
}

#
# combined playback/capture device
#
pcm.!duplex {
        type asym
        playback.pcm "playback"
        capture.pcm "capture"
}

#
# making the playback/capture device default
#
pcm.!default {
	type plug
	slave.pcm "duplex"
}

#
# for oss compatibility (maybe)
#
pcm.!dsp {
	type plug
	slave.pcm "duplex"
}

ctl.!mixer0 {
	type hw
	card 0
}

Reboot your computer and it should work. At least it did for me on Ubuntu 7.10.
And I got the above code form here

Oh, And if you don't have an .asoundrc file in your home directory then you'll have to add one. just use gedit are what ever text editor you use.

Hope that helps.

[YuGiOhJCJ]

Yep, same problem under Slackware 12.0.
TeamSpeak doesn't use ALSA drivers, this is the real problem.

[Kibuzo]

Team Speak does not seem to be built for any modern linux distribution, it looks more like an oldish windows gaming enthusiast application, using oss and pascal is a terrible choice for us, actually its performances are poor compared to other newer systems, Mumble in primis. The problem is convincing communities to switch to better programs, if teamspeak 3.0 won't be fast out i believe and HOPE that, with this new spreading of linux, mumble will soon increase popularity.

I have the same problem with gentoo x86_64 and Analog Devices AD1986A, looks like there is no way to solve it, apart from substantially removing microphone support. This sucks SO much.