Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound problem

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 23:45 +0200, Dion van Oirschot a écrit :
> 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?
> 

I don't know how to do that.
But have you tried to disable echo cancellation and/or silence
detection?

That is weird that the normal soundcard works fine and not the USB
headset.

> 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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> >>>
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