Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] choppy audio with very bad echo

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman es net>]

> From: "Matt Jaffe" <mjaffe scires com>
> Sender: gnomemeeting-list-admin gnome org
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:23:53 -0500
> 
> I am using GM 0.85 (default installed by RH 7.3 on an IBM T30 laptop
> with a plain old intel i810 soundcard.  I am using the "i810_audio"
> driver that the RedHat install put on by default.  When I enable audio
> in GM it comes through as extremely choppy and there is a very bad echo.
>  Using the Sound Recorder from the Gnome menu, it records and plays back
> fine.  I have seen on the FAR that the also drivers fix non-existent
> sound, but nothing about the problem I am seeing.  I have to get this
> working on 14 of these laptops with identical hardware, so if I don't
> have to install also, that would be better.  Please help.

I have exactly the same problem on my T30 with GM 0.96. It's clearly a
timing issue. The audio is not playing back at the right pitch and
there are periodic "jumps" in the audio as the source "re-syncs". The
problem is clearly present in the audio test.

I had a problem with some older systems with ICH3 audio playing back
too fast. The driver was fixed to correct this problem. Now
GnomeMeeting is doing exactly the opposite. It's playing back too
slowly.

To make it even odder, I'm running on FreeBSD stable. This implies that
the problem is in GM or one of its libraries.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman es net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634