Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 23:45 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit : > Hi Damien, > > > I did the test you recommended. I get perfect output to my USB headset > (with plughw:1,0) in both settings (-r 8000 and -r 16000) so this seems > not to be the problem. > > Do you know of any way to pipe the output of ekiga to a file so I could > send it over so you can hear the sound? Maybe this gives some clue on a > solution? >
I don't know how to do that. But have you tried to disable echo cancellation and/or silence detection? That is weird that the normal soundcard works fine and not the USB headset. > Thanks for the help so far! > > Greetings, > > Dion > > > Damien Sandras wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Probably the ALSA driver has a bug that doesn't show with the OSS > > emulation layer used by Skype. > > > > You can test if you get good results (or not) with this command: > > arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c > > 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - > > > > You can also test with -r 16000 instead of -r 8000. > > > > Finally, notice that perhaps your USB HeadSet is plughw:1,0, not 0,0 > > > > Le mardi 04 avril 2006 à 21:44 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit : > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> With a little help of a friend of mine, I partially solved the sound > >> problem. The problem lies somewhere in the USB-headset. > >> > >> I changed the settings so Ekiga uses my normal soundcard for sound > >> output and my USB-headset's mic for input. Now everything works fine! > >> > >> Still I wonder why it is not working with sound sent to my headset. My > >> headset works fine in skype (both directions). > >> > >> The headset is a Logitech® Premium USB Headset 350 > >> > >> Hope someone can tell me what I can do about this. > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> Dion > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> Thanks for the tip Johnny, I tried disabling echo cancellation. It > >> doesn't work to get the choppyness off the sound but it did work to get > >> the volume of the speach I hear much higher so now the volume has a more > >> normal level. > >> > >> Still I have this problem with the sound qualitiy. I have done some > >> experimenting again and observed: > >> > >> 1. When I startup Ekiga and call 500:@ekiga.net (echo service), at first > >> the sound of the voice of the lady is terrible. It is just like > >> noise/choppy sound and you can't even understand what she is saying. > >> Maybe if I could pipe the sound output to a sound recorder I could send > >> in a sample of what I hear. It might help finding out what the problem > >> really is. Will look into this. > >> > >> 2. When I close ekiga (to the system tray) and reopen it, sound turns > >> back to normal and stays normal. Clear, comprehensible and no noise. > >> > >> 3. When I open another app or even switch to another desktop or open one > >> of the menu's in Ekiga, sound returns to being awfull. I have to close > >> and reopen Ekiga (to systray) to get sound normal again. > >> > >> 4. Memory usage is normal (290 of 512 kb free) > >> > >> 5. CPU usage is normal (maximum 20% during call) > >> > >> Any clues on how to solve this are very welcome. > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> Dion > >> > >> > >> Johnny Strom wrote: > >> > >>> Dion van Oirschot wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello all, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I have been testing Ekiga 2.0.1. today on a Debian Sid system. > >>>> > >>>> Having a big problem with sound. I tested it with the echo service. > >>>> These are my observations: > >>>> > >>>> - The beep you hear when connecting is loud and clear (so audio > >>>> settings are ok) > >>>> - After connecting to the echo service, the sound is ok, though a bit > >>>> low in volume (much lower than the beep) > >>>> - After a short while the sound gets awfull. Cracking sound, almost > >>>> not possible to understand what is said. > >>>> - When I minimize the Ekiga window and maximize it again, sound gets > >>>> ok again. > >>>> - When I start another app while keeping connected to the echo > >>>> service, the sound gets awfull again, so I need to minimize/maximize > >>>> the Ekiga window again (sometimes a couple of times) to get 'normal > >>>> sound' back. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> Try to disable echo cancellation. > >>> > >>> > >>>> I am using ALSA and a Logitech USB headset. Working with the > >>>> Enlightenment 17 desktop, but same problem appears in IceWM. > >>>> > >>>> I ran Ekiga with option -d 1 and during startup I got this error > >>>> message: > >>>> > >>>> 2006/04/03 19:10:27.477 0:02.488 ekiga > >>>> AVAHI Error initializing Avahi: %sDaemon not running > >>>> > >>>> I don't know if the sound problem relates to this Avahi daemon not > >>>> running. > >>>> Do I need to install some Avahi package in order for Ekiga to run > >>>> properly? > >>>> > >>>> Any help is very much appreciated, > >>>> > >>>> Dion > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list > >> > > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone: http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
