Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

[Dion van Oirschot <dion van oirschot telenet be>]

Hi all,


With a little help of a friend of mine, I partially solved the sound
problem. The problem lies somewhere in the USB-headset.

I changed the settings so Ekiga uses my normal soundcard for sound
output and my USB-headset's mic for input. Now everything works fine!

Still I wonder why it is not working with sound sent to my headset. My
headset works fine in skype (both directions).

The headset is a Logitech® Premium USB Headset 350

Hope someone can tell me what I can do about this.

Greetings,

Dion




Hi all,


Thanks for the tip Johnny, I tried disabling echo cancellation. It
doesn't work to get the choppyness off the sound but it did work to get
the volume of the speach I hear much higher so now the volume has a more
normal level.

Still I have this problem with the sound qualitiy. I have done some
experimenting again and observed:

1. When I startup Ekiga and call 500:@ekiga.net (echo service), at first
the sound of the voice of the lady is terrible. It is just like
noise/choppy sound and you can't even understand what she is saying.
Maybe if I could pipe the sound output to a sound recorder I could send
in a sample of what I hear. It might help finding out what the problem
really is. Will look into this.

2. When I close ekiga (to the system tray) and reopen it, sound turns
back to normal and stays normal. Clear, comprehensible and no noise.

3. When I open another app or even switch to another desktop or open one
of the menu's in Ekiga, sound returns to being awfull. I have to close
and reopen Ekiga (to systray) to get sound normal again.

4. Memory usage is normal (290 of 512 kb free)

5. CPU usage is normal (maximum 20% during call)

Any clues on how to solve this are very welcome.

Greetings,

Dion


Johnny Strom wrote:
> Dion van Oirschot wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> > I have been testing Ekiga 2.0.1. today on a Debian Sid system.
> >
> > Having a big problem with sound. I tested it with the echo service.
> > These are my observations:
> >
> > - The beep you hear when connecting is loud and clear (so audio 
> > settings are ok)
> > - After connecting to the echo service, the sound is ok, though a bit 
> > low in volume (much lower than the beep)
> > - After a short while the sound gets awfull. Cracking sound, almost 
> > not possible to understand what is said.
> > - When I minimize the Ekiga window and maximize it again, sound gets 
> > ok again.
> > - When I start another app while keeping connected to the echo 
> > service, the sound gets awfull again, so I need to minimize/maximize 
> > the Ekiga window again (sometimes a couple of times) to get 'normal 
> > sound' back.
>
> Hi
>
> Try to disable echo cancellation.
>
> > I am using ALSA and a Logitech USB headset. Working with the 
> > Enlightenment 17 desktop, but same problem appears in IceWM.
> >
> > I ran Ekiga with option -d 1 and during startup I got this error 
> > message:
> >
> > 2006/04/03 19:10:27.477   0:02.488                        ekiga 
> > AVAHI   Error initializing Avahi: %sDaemon not running
> >
> > I don't know if the sound problem relates to this Avahi daemon not 
> > running.
> > Do I need to install some Avahi package in order for Ekiga to run 
> > properly?
> >
> > Any help is very much appreciated,
> >
> > Dion
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