Re: [Ekiga-list] poor quality voice in ekiga

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Jason Haar <Jason Haar trimble co nz> wrote:
> yannick wrote:
>>
>> Those codecs match different needs (bandwidth, error recovering,
>> latency, quality, etc.).
>>
>>
>
> This isn't a codec issue. I have already tried disabling all but one,
> testing that, doing the same for a different one, etc. It makes no
> difference. Even the codecs classified as 16bit instead of 8bit (ie
> speex) didn't change the quality.
>
> I assume this isn't a problem you see yourself (the staticy voice)? I'm
> wondering if it "sort of" is a hardware issue. Maybe the default
> ALSA/pulseaudio settings for Intel 82801G soundcards (which my laptop
> and workstation both have) is crappy, but "pushing" something into the
> driver (like skype and "asound -f cd" do) enhances it? Maybe other
> soundcards defaults are better, and so this issue isn't seen? I can't
> fiddle with the hardware here, so I can't test that myself
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
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Have you tried a USB mic?   My old Inspiron 700M used to have horrible
static on the mic and a USB mic resolved the issue.