[Ekiga-list] sound quality

[yannick]

Le jeudi 09 août 2007 à 12:16 +0200, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Le jeudi 09 août 2007 à 06:05 -0400, Kevin Hunter a écrit :
> > 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 Given recent mention that I'm using an out of date version of Ekiga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?
> > 
> 
> What's the jitter value and the packets loss (statistics tab) ?

Well, I bet an upgrade to 2.0.9 will solve your issue:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ekiga#head-57385c7cf79361cbb4d7195b9f43c1bb33c1e94c

Arnult had problems because his connection is low bandwidth, I bet your
have problem because of a sound hardware buggy with 2.0.3

Regards,
Yannick

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