On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 19:16, Eugen Dedu <[email protected]> wrote: >> The sound quality of our conversations was unusable: it was completely >> choppy. Could that be because: >> 1) My distro uses PulseAudio > > Maybe, see below. >
Thanks. >> What should I do first? I do not want to replace PulseAudio with Alsa >> because I have other applications that depend on PulseAudio. > > I think the problem is because: > - either pulse; in last unstable release, ekiga is finally provided with a > ptlib plugin for pulse, this should solve this issue in my opinion (I have > not tested, but it is a plugin expecially for pulse) - this last version is > not as usable as 3.2.x release, we are preparing it, but it might take more > time Thanks. As I'm the only Linux user of the bunch, I will take a look at the unstable. > - or because G.722 and G.711 audio plugins are not well supported in ekiga; > I advise to use speex Great, thanks. > - or your sound card is sub-optimal > Thanks. I did not realise that Ekiga could be so intensive on the sound card. In any case, it is a 5.1 onboard card that ships with a gaming motherboard (and has killer onboard video as well) so I doubt that is the issue. But maybe one of the Windows machines has an old Creative16 card or such. I'll check, thanks. >> The problem you >> will run into with Ekiga on Windows, Linux, or MAC is DTMF tones using >> RFC2833. > > Well, I think this is an issue in very special cases, not in the case of > this person. > Good to know. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
