Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Audio delay compared to netmeeting.



Hello,

We have a new ALSA plugin in CVS that could solve your problem.
However, that doesn't sound normal to have to fight with such recording
options to get decent latency.


Le mardi 07 décembre 2004 à 19:09 +0100, Bruno Hertz a écrit :
> Hi folks
> 
> on trying out gnomemeeting on my LAN, initially to figure
> out firewall issues, I noticed that with gm <-> netmeeting
> LAN connections the audio lag is considerably higher in
> gm -> nm direction than the other way round, amounting to
> 1 to 2 secs delay.
> 
> In an attempt to track that issue down, I first tried
> XP/nm on my linux box to find out wether the hardware
> might be the problem. But the resulting nm <-> nm test
> showed that XP/nm still performs much better on my Linux
> box than FC3/gm with Alsa (soundchip is Ensoniq AudioPCI).
> 
> Then, I made some (naive) tests to figure out wether the
> mic input is somehow delayed, of the kind arecord | aplay
> resp. cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp. It turned out that I
> heard mic input as well with 1 to 2 secs delay, so I wrote
> to the Alsa list about this issue. There I was told that
> the delay is due to buffering, and I should try running
> arecord with various --buffer-size values. I did, and
> with small values (up to 1024) the delay actually is
> close to none. Of course, with small buffers I got crackling
> sound, but still. The --buffer-size option apparantly does
> not only effect the application level read buffer but rather
> some hw parm buffer I don't know about, but I now understand
> can and probably should be optimized according to the applications
> requirements.
> 
> Now, finally my question :) Is there any way to optimize gm for
> minimum lag with alsa, maybe by fiddling with the sources?
> The only configurable option I've seen so far is the jitter
> buffer, which I understand only affects incoming packets and
> consequently wouldn't help in this case. Or is gm already attempting
> to optimize and is the current performance the best I can get?
> 
> Hints highly appreciated, Bruno.
> 
> 
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