OK, I have found a fix for this. It was just a matter of removing (actually re-naming) the .pulse and .config/pulse folders then re-booting to create new defaults for Pulseaudio.
Had a long hangout with my brother last night with no problems. Happy Christmas and a good New Year to all in Ubuntu UK, Tony On 22 December 2013 15:05, Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone has the same problem as me and knows the > explanation/cure for it. > > For a long time I had been able to hangout with my brother. I'm using my > EEEPC (its one of the recent models with dual core Atom N550 and 10" > screen) and a Logitech UVC class webcam with a built in microphone. I'm > using Ubuntu 13.04 fully updated. My browser is Firefox. > > After a long time with this working perfectly I now find that my sound > stops working after about 30 seconds in the hangout. We can see each other > OK and I can hear my brother, but he cannot hear me. If I go into Sound > Settings and switch to the EEEPC's microphone my sound comes back, but it > is very poor quality, which is why I want to use the one in the webcam. I > can then switch back to the webcam's microphone and, if I am lucky, my > brother will hear me for another 30 seconds or so until it stops working > again. > > Does anyone have any idea of how I can get the sound input from the > webcam's microphone to work properly like it used to do? > > Tony >
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