[Ekiga-list] No incoming Sound

[Damien Sandras]

Le lundi 09 octobre 2006 à 17:58 +0100, Geoff Jankowski a écrit :
> An update before you respond.
> 
> Last night I got the video to work but not incoming sound.  Today I
> got the video to work from the remote station with sound but no video
> image from me locally.
> 
> Also, when I ring out, the respondent answered, I could see the SPEEX
> codec come up but then the phone kept ringing at my end!  We were
> connected as we could use the chat interface.
> 
> So..
> 
> I looked at the ekiga site and decided to try to update to 2.0.2
> ekiga.dapper.  I have downloaded all the files.  Removed the ubuntu
> installation.  Installed the new installation and ekiga opens.
> 
> Again I cannot see the local video but it looks like the rest is
> working.
> 
> dmesg gives me this continuous output
> 
> [17197479.928000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (311 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.936000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (487 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.936000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (504 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.936000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (447 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.948000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (573 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.948000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (3 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.948000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (292 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.956000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (306 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.956000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (550 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.996000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (528 bytes); discarded.
> [17197479.996000] pwc Frame buffer underflow (544 bytes); discarded.
> 
> Yet pwc was fine last night!  Can you advise what is going on here?
> 

No idea, it sounds like an USB or pwc problem :(

> I ran;
> 
> ekiga -d 4 > output.txt 2>&1
> 
> and it gave me confidence except that it said;
> 
> 2006/10/09 17:38:52.531   0:03.047                   ekiga AVAHI
> Failed to create client: Daemon not running
> 
> and 
> 
> 2006/10/09 17:38:56.786   0:07.302                   ekiga DBUS
> support disabled
> 
> I looked for the libavahi file but it no longer exists for the ubuntu
> distro.
> 
> It would be really nice to have this working again.  Could someone
> guide me please?

The warnings above can safely be ignored. But I'm afraid you will have
to investigate a bit yourself further because I currently have no
advice :(


> 
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 23:31 +0100, Geoff Jankowski wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I now have ekiga working on ubuntu 6.06 which incorporate ekiga as a
> > standard item.  However, I cannot get the sound to work properly!  
> > 
> > I have run the wizard and am using the default settings and I have
> > tried the 500 at ekiga.net line and all is well with the echo test
> > working.
> > 
> > Yet, as soon as I call out to a phone or other ekiga user, I cannot
> > receive sound back.  I have listed below the pwlib files and have
> > checked through the General History and ekiga -d 4 outputs which
> > show that the codecs are opening fine even though a codec directory
> > does not seem to exist in /usr/lib/pwlib!.  
> > 
> > Also, as the sound and video permissions were read only, I tried
> > changing these to read/execute but this made no difference.
> > 
> > I am running a default setting stun server (stun.ekiga.net) but
> > cannot get sound to come back to me.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > pwlib files
> > 
> > /usr/lib/pwlib/device/sound/alsa_pwplugin.so
> > /usr/lib/pwlib/device/videoinput/v4l2_pwplugin.so
> > /usr/lib/pwlib/device/videoinput/v4l_pwplugin.so
> > 
> > Should there be others and if so where does ubuntput them?
> > 
> > It was previously suggested that I should try killall esd.  I have
> > done this and by watching the system monitor can see the esd
> > processes dissappear but it still makes no difference.  The echo
> > test works but a real call only allows my sound to go out.  I can
> > never hear the person at the other end.
> > 
> > Could you give me some ideas on how to overcome this problem please?
> > 
> > 
> > Geoff 
> > 
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> 
> 
> 
> Geoff 
> 
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