[Ekiga-list] Sound problems

[Damien Sandras]

Le lundi 18 septembre 2006 à 14:36 +1000, Linda Marsh a écrit :
> Now that I understand that I'm supposed to be using my microphone the
> arecord |aplay works fine, my voice is very clear. 
> 
> I have been playing with the jitter buffer settings whilst on a
> sip:500 at ekiga.net call. Setting it to 50 seems to give the worst
> results. Setting it to about 500 is clearer but I still think people
> would have trouble understanding me talk. Increasing it beyond this had
> no further effect.

The problem is with your audio reception, not your audio transmission.
What is weird is that you hear the voice from the girl clearly, but not
your voice.

The only thing I can suggest you is to try calling somebody and see if
the effect is the same (different codecs will be used).

> 
> I don't have a camera so I have disabled video. This has had no effect.
> 
> 
> My ALSA Driver version is 1.0.9rc2
> My Distribution is Fedora Core 4
> My Sound card Intel 8280 ICH4 
> 
> Any more ideas about what I could try?
> 
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 15:14 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le dimanche 17 septembre 2006 à 08:41 +0200, yannick a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Le dimanche 17 septembre 2006 à 15:28 +1000, Linda Marsh a écrit :
> > > > Can you tell me how to reverse what I have done with this arecord
> > > > command? 
> > > 
> > > Quote from 
> > > $ man arecord
> > > "arecord, aplay - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA sound‐
> > > card driver"
> > > 
> > > This as nothing to do with Ekiga, those programs (aplay and arecord) are
> > > part of ALSA (the system wich provide drivers for sound-cards shipped
> > > with the linux kernel). See http://www.alsa-project.org/
> > > 
> > > I guess Damien ask you to test this command to see if your ALSA
> > > installation can support ekiga's requirement from ALSA. Seems your
> > > driver fails to complete the job, meaning your ALSA installation (or
> > > worst, your sound-card...) can't work with ekiga. 
> > > 
> > > What is your ALSA version ?
> > > Try this in a shell :
> > > $ cat /proc/asound/version
> > > 
> > > What is your distro ?
> > > 
> > > What is your sound card ?
> > > 
> > 
> > To summarize what Yannick said, most probably your sound hardware setup
> > is messed up. Suggestion: change your distribution and install one that
> > comes with tested software.
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