Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] On sound codecs

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à 10:58 -0700, JCA a écrit :
>    I am running GM 1.2.1, and have two questions:
> 
>   1) What is one supposed to do with all the sound codecs in the
> preferences? Why would I want to use a given codec, rather than
> another?
> 
>   2) In the past, I have been able to test against the voxgratia robot
> with some success. All of a sudden, however, whenever I start a
> connection to it GM prints out the following message:
> 
>     Could not open audio channel for audio transmission
> 
>   I have used the lsof command to check out /dev/dsp, and nobody seems
> to be using it.
> What is going on? My sound board is working fine - as is most
> gallingly illustrated by the fact that skype still works flawlessly.


Why using OSS when ALSA is available, rock-solid and officially replaced
OSS since a few months now? 

Some OSS drivers are not able to record and play in full-duplex at the
samplerates requested by GnomeMeeting and that could be your problem.
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