Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Jaba the hut sound using Gnomemeeting

[Nick THOMPSON <nickthompson agere com>]

You didn't mention how you invoke GM. Do you kill artsd before running
it or do you use artsdsp. I always kill artsd* and GM works fine. I have
heard it is possible to use artsdsp as a wrapper, though it gives bad
results.

* actually, I usually forget and GM hangs and locks up my camera, so I
have to reboot :-(

Nick.

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:53, Brian Kreulen wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've got a small problem using Gnomemeeting that I just can't seem to
> resolve. I've tried looking at the online FAQ, but there were no answers
> there.
> 
> I'm trying to communicate with a friend, both of us using Gnomemeeting.
> We connect, but our voices sound completely awful, like Jabba the hut
> through a megaphone with weak batteries. We can tell there's someone on
> the other end, but it's completely unintelligable.
> 
> We've both got kernel 2.6.1 (Gentoo). We're both connected directly to
> the net, and our firewalls have the correct TCP and UDP ports opened up.
> We don't have 5010-5013 open, but we're not connecting to a gatekeeper,
> so that doesn't matter. We both are using OSS (ALSA gave me microphone
> problems using Gnomemeeting) and we're both running KDE (does that make
> a difference? I wouldn't think so). We're both on broadband connections,
> so it shouldn't be a bandwidth problems. When running the configuration
> druid, there's no problem with the full-duplex setup and the voices
> coming out sounds clear (ie, the microphones are working and are being
> recorded properly).
> 
> During a call, sometimes the packet loss gets up to 95%, sometimes it
> remains at 1-2%, but in every case the sound is awful. 
> 
> I'm at wit's end with this, and it further aggrevates me that everyone
> else seems to be running Gnomemeeting perfectly. Can anyone give any
> suggestions? Thanks!

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