Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga vs Skype

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 21:58 +0200, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 13:53 -0600, Edward Dunagin a écrit :
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> > > Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 12:14 -0600, Edward Dunagin a écrit :
> > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:23 AM, D Webb <dlw_insulin hotmail com> wrote:
> > >  > >
> > >  > >  > The Windows version is beta software. We do not have any maintainer for
> > >  > > > it (I even removed it from the website). If we can not find a
> > >  > > > maintainer, that means there is no interest for it, so we can drop it.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > Ouch! I guess that basically kills Ekiga. Its appeal was that it worked on
> > >  > > Linux and Windows which greatly increased its versatility. There just are
> > >  > > not that many people using Linux.
> > >  > >
> > >  > > What is required to be a maintainer?
> > >  > >
> > >  >
> > >  > I must unfortunately report that after I offered Dee help, I tried  to
> > >  > bring up Ekiga again and it crashes.
> > >  >  I do remember doing an apt-get update and upgrade in the last few
> > >  > days and ,(again) if I remember there was an ALSA and PulseAudio
> > >  > upgrade. I think this is my problem and I am going to try and
> > >  > downgrade those two programs.
> > >
> > >  You could also try to isolate the problem and fix it, either in Ekiga or
> > >  in Pulseaudio.
> > 
> > I removed pulseaudio from my system and now Ekiga is ok. Tested it
> > with 500 and audio and videoare fine. I have not tested it with a live
> > user.
> 
> I have read that bug in their bugtracker and it seems that pulseaudio
> guys fixed the problem.

Notice that I just installed PulseAudio from Debian unstable with
libasound2-plugins 1.0.16 and it works well.

The only problem is that it increases latency from 40ms in normal
conditions to 340ms using PulseAudio.

Not sure it is normal but I would not recommend using it :(
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