[Ekiga-list] sound quality

[Kevin Hunter]

At 3:58a -0400 on 09 Aug 2007, arnuld wrote:
>> Given recent mention that I'm using an out of date version of Ekiga
>> (2.0.3) because it's what Ubuntu currently has in it's repositories,
>> what are my options in terms of sound and quality?  No matter which
>> codec I put at the top of the list in Preferences, I seem to get very
>> choppy sound.  When I dial the 500 at ekiga.net address, it connects, but
>> both the woman's voice and my own are very muddled and hard to hear.  It
>> clears up for a few seconds after about 5 seconds, but then returns to
>> choppy, low quality.  (Juxtaposed with the Skype client that I just
>> tried which gets very good quality of sound, so I'm certain it's not my
>> hardware/driver.)
>>
>> Is there something not written in the docs that I'm missing?
> 
> same happened with me as i have only 256 kbps bandwidth connection. go
> to "Edit > Preferences" and do these 2:
> 
> 1.) choose right audio-codecs (according to your bandwidth).
> 2.) if you do not have any need for a web-cam, disable the video support there.

Neither of those had any effect.  :-(  Comparing just our bandwidth (I
have a 384 Kbps connection) you'd think that'd at least do /something/.
 Hmm.  Thanks, though.  Any other ideas?

> both will do the job. i have disabled the web-cam as i donot find any
> need for it. i think voice-chat clients are better with Audio support
> only :)

Heh, since I have no camera, I agree!  ;-)

Kevin