Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Note: at least when having ALSA libraries (alsa-base, and the oss plugin) installed at the same time as OSS4, which you probably want because not all applications are supporting OSS, then Ekiga will still choose OSS for the output and input devices (/dev/dsp (PTLIB/OSS)), but ALSA (Default

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Another note for those who want to try it: It's imperative that OSS4's vmix0-src is set to Fast (not High). This is said to be the resampling quality, and of course you'd be tempted to set it to High, as I did after everything worked. Can't hurt you think, on a 2.5 Ghz dual core, and my testing

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Ok so I've played with suspend. OSS4 does not support suspend/resume at all. Upstream comes with two scripts soundoff and soundon which help to handle shutting down and reinitializing it. Bad part number 1 is that those are missing from the Debian packages; good part is I've solved that by taking

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-05 Thread Christian Jaeger
Actually another correction, too: replace the perl part with: perl -we 'while (read STDIN, $buf, 6*2) { print substr $buf,0,2 }' (since I'm using mono, and the word width of the samples is 2 bytes not 4, duh; funny I actually didn't hear any difference). Now here's how I actually kind of solved

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-02 Thread Dave Higton
-Original Message- From: ekiga-list-boun...@gnome.org [mailto:ekiga-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of Christian Jaeger Sent: 2010 March 02 14:19 To: Ekiga mailing list Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter Well, I wouldn't say my