Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

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

Hi Damien,


I did the test you recommended. I get perfect output to my USB headset 
(with plughw:1,0) in both settings (-r 8000 and -r 16000) so this seems 
not to be the problem.

Do you know of any way to pipe the output of ekiga to a file so I could 
send it over so you can hear the sound? Maybe this gives some clue on a 
solution?

Thanks for the help so far!

Greetings,

Dion


Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably the ALSA driver has a bug that doesn't show with the OSS
> emulation layer used by Skype.
>
> You can test if you get good results (or not) with this command:
> arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c
> 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - 
>
> You can also test with -r 16000 instead of -r 8000.
>
> Finally, notice that perhaps your USB HeadSet is plughw:1,0, not 0,0
>
> Le mardi 04 avril 2006 à 21:44 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit :
>   
> > 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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