[Ekiga-list] Poor audio quality

[Damien Sandras]

Le vendredi 20 octobre 2006 à 23:33 +0100, Mario Rossi a écrit :
> > >    Where is actually the problem?
> > >    - the driver
> > >    - dmix
> > >    - alsa
> 
> > Here, most probably.
> 
> > Snark
> 
> > PS: why do you post twice?
> 
> Sorry about that, but some mails arrive within seconds other times it
> take few hours, so I reposted it. I will be more patient.
> 
> Reading messages in the mailing list and the wiki about audio setup
> (the one about dmix) it seems that the alsa layer is the weak point to
> get good sound quality.
> 
> I haven't understood what is exactly the problem, but since alsa looks
> to be the standard sound architecture in linux, I see that as a big
> issue. Especially since it is very common to use more than one audio
> oriented application at the same time.
> Shouldn't the developers of alsa be involved, filing bug reports or
> asking for a better implementation of the problematic drivers.

There is a fix that could improve things in the pure CVS version of
Ekiga when DMIX is being used. But yes, ALSA is the culprit in most of
the cases when there is a problem with sound.
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