[GnomeMeeting-list] Sound choppy with USB headset

[Patrice LaFlamme <nrn patrix org>]

Hey all,
        
        It seems that this problem has occured to other people during
        the past month, and that no solution has yet been found.
        Basically, when I use my USB headset with Ekiga I hear the sound
        very very very choppy.
        
        It's fine wth my soundcard, and it's fine with every other
        application that uses the USB headset. Only once connected on
        Ekiga do I hear the choppy sound (in other words, the ringing
        beeps are fine).
        
        Other VOIP apps such as gizmo and x-lite do NOT experience this
        problem, so the problem isn't with network speed or CPU overload
        (Gizmo overloads the CPU all by itself in the Linux
        version ;)  ). These apps use OSS though, not ALSA.
        
        I have played around with echo cancellation, the jitter buffer,
        etc,
        still no go. Jitter buffer seems to have a bit of an effect, but
        there's thousands of possibilities and I can't realistically
        test them all.
        
        Has a solution been found since the beginning of the month, or
        what steps can I take to troubleshoot this? Is the problem
        within ALSA, ekiga, the codecs, ???
        
        I'm running Arch Linux (current) with gnome 2.14, ekiga cvs
        compiled 2 days ago (same problem though with ekiga 2.0.1)
        
        
        thanks in advance,
        Patrix.