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

[Damien Sandras <damien sandras it-optics com>]

Le jeu 15/01/2004 à 11:02, Nick THOMPSON a écrit :
> 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 :-(
> 

Do you mean that not killing artsd hangs GM, and that it actually
crashes your camera?

There are 2 bugs :
- GnomeMeeting shouldn't hang, it should just report that the device is
busy (that bug has been fixed in CVS).
- The camera shouldn't crash your machine in that case, but that is a
camera driver bug.



> 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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