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General Topics => Computer Problems & Questions, Virus/Scam Warnings => Topic started by: lance on May 10, 2009, 11:12:53 AM

Title: skype
Post by: lance on May 10, 2009, 11:12:53 AM: Please help its taken me a week to set up skype with someone in UK ,today got video on she can hear me ,but i cant hear her it keeps flashing sound problems on that end .what i need to know is programmes on sound and settings you have different boxes to tick she is on XL I'm on vista ,should her settings be on default or another ,i don't know if they are all the same cheers
Title: skype
Post by: Scunner on May 10, 2009, 11:27:20 AM: First things first - Is it only bad on video calls Lance? I mean, if you do a 'normal' phone conversation is it ok? There's a lot more info to get from A to B with video calls. Can you hear her sometimes, or 100% never?
Title: skype
Post by: stoop on May 10, 2009, 11:28:49 AM: Lance,

Get your friend to go into skype then click tools and then options. Then click on sound devices and make sure she is using the correct audio device from the drop down list - especially the audio out one.

She could also try clicking on the skype test call to see if that helps.
Title: skype
Post by: Diverbaz 1 on May 10, 2009, 12:34:41 PM: Does she have a microphone???

Baz 8)
Title: skype
Post by: Scunner on May 10, 2009, 12:39:00 PM: More to the point, do you have speakers Lance (http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/laughing.gif)
Title: skype
Post by: stoop on May 10, 2009, 14:48:09 PM: pmsl - stop it you two!
Title: skype
Post by: lance on May 11, 2009, 07:08:16 AM: I got built in speakers on lap top and get reply test call i think it is probably her mike ,i ve been saying to her its her speakers but she can hear me so it would be the microphone not on i think cheers ;)

quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

More to the point, do you have speakers Lance (http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/laughing.gif)
Title: skype
Post by: tribalelder on May 11, 2009, 08:05:00 AM: Simple point Lance has she got the Microphone mute button pressed. Get her to do a Skype test call to find out. :)
Title: skype
Post by: stoop on May 11, 2009, 09:23:49 AM: Lance - is she using a webcam with a built in mike? If so she needs to go into the settings I mentioned above and change the audio out so that her webcam is the default one. It's probably set on windows default device at the moment.
Title: skype
Post by: mrkeith on August 04, 2010, 09:25:05 AM: Is Skype still not working here???
Title: skype
Post by: tribalelder on August 04, 2010, 09:31:56 AM: After two days of will it won't it this morning 11.30 Turkish Time it is fine on Vista & 7 in Fethiye :)