Skype locking up, and microphone "lagging"

I've always had this problems with skype and pulseaudio on ubuntu. Whenever i start up skype, i have to call someone, then hang up 4-5 times, before the other person can hear my voice.

When i, or the other person hang up, skype tends to lock up. I can't kill it with "killall skype" or a logout, so i have to restart my computer.

Have anyone else encountered this problem, and if so solved this? I'm using 10.10 btw.

Solution 1:

This may be unrelated, but i had all sorts of problems with ubuntu skype, until i went into skype configuration an unchecked, allow skype to manage sound settings.