[Ekiga-list] Why does Ekiga throw away the first 3 seconds of sound?

[Damien Sandras]

Le dimanche 29 octobre 2006 à 16:15 +0100, Benny Amorsen a écrit :
> >>>>> "DS" == Damien Sandras <dsandras at seconix.com> writes:
> 
> DS> The RFC tells that the media streams should not be sent before the
> DS> ACK is received. Asterisk doesn't follow this. So I conclude the
> DS> bug is in Asterisk not in Ekiga...
> 
> If Asterisk got fixed and didn't start sending audio until the ACK,
> wouldn't that still leave users talking without any audio going
> through? If it takes 3 seconds for the ACK to go through, that's 3
> seconds of silence.
> 
You wouldn't be in connected mode, so you wouldn't start talking.

(Or I don't understand your question).

A call is established only when the ACK has been sent/received. Not
before, not after. If no ACK is sent/received, then the call is still in
'dialing' mode.
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