Hi there Basically I find that ekiga and twinkle both have TERRIBLE recording quality (tested under FC8,F10 and F11). When I'm talking to someone over them, the other person always comments on how bad the line sounds. However, skype recording (conversations) sounds perfect. Doing some digging shows me that using the command-line ALSA tool "arecord file.wav" produces a similarly crappy recording, but "arecord -f cd file.wav" produces a much better sounding output - the big difference is the default is 8000Hz and the latter is 44KHz? Forcing different codecs doesn't appear to improve things: my voice comes through "staticy" and WAV voicemails saved in /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail are all 8000Hz too. It's as if the soundcard is outputting to the codec a "low quality" audio - so the codec can't magically make it better (i.e. garbage in, garbage out)
It smells to me like ekiga/twinkle aren't "telling" pulseaudio (although I think this is an old issue and affects ALSA too) to choose a higher quality recording format and that's the root cause of my problem? Has anyone else experienced this, and is there a workaround? My arecord/skype tests show Linux voice recording is good enough at the lowest API levels - it's just that ekiga doesn't makes use of it? I'm hoping I'm doing something wrong and someone here will point me in the right direction :-) This has been tested with ekiga-2.0.11 and 3.0.2 (I'm running F10 and F11). I've tried to upgrade to the current release, but I'd have to tear half my system apart to take care of the dependencies - so no go. Thanks Jason -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
