Hello! The tricky thing is that Skype actually sends 2 audio streams: 0) incoming call ringing; 1) a voice. You can test the streams with "echo123" and "Options/Notifications/Test Event". Stream 0 is always visible as "System Sounds" in "pavucontrol". Stream 1 appears when you are talking. Youtube audio appears in "pavucontrol" under the name of your webbrowser. I should tell that Skype does recognize audio streams on my Arch Linux. The wiki page that you mentioned describes tuning of another aspect. If you have 6-channel sound card and stereo speakers, set the number of channels to 2 in "alsamixer" and "default-sample-channels=2" in PulseAudio. On 09.04.12 11:49, Sw at g wrote: > I installed pavucontrol and paprefs but it seems pulseaudio doesn't > recognise the different output, after searching the wiki a bit I suppose > I need to follow the setup for the surround sound found there => > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Surround_sound_systems