Re: [Ekiga-list] Poor Sound

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 23/05/11 03:05, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> On 23 May, 2011,at 12:24 PM, Ted McCune<computer ted gmail com>  wrote:
>
> >  Running Debian 6, Intel HDA onboard audio, ALSA sound system, Ekiga3.2.7,
> >  Diamondcard SIP account.
> >
> >  When calling phones the person I'm calling says I'm "beeping in and out" and I
> >  hear an echo and the sound quality is bad.
> >
> >  Everything works perfectly in Skype on the same machine.
> >
> >  In the advanced settings there are a ton of codecs and I don't understand any
> >  of them or how to use them.
>
>
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> For the sound issue, the first thing I'd suggest is simply making a call to the
> Ekiga.net echo test service, and see what the sound quality is like there (e.g.
> does it echo or cut in/out etc.).
>
> For the audio codecs, I find it easiest to enable PCMU, PCMA,and Speex only for
> starters.

More important is the order of codecs.  By default, it is speex16, 
iLBC-H323only, PCMU, PCMA, hence it should be ok.

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Eugen