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Bug 329220 - Sending bad quality audio
Sending bad quality audio
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 329180
Product: ekiga
Classification: Applications
Component: general
1.99.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Ekiga maintainers
Ekiga maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-30 14:31 UTC by Niv Vaizer
Modified: 2006-02-04 17:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12



Description Niv Vaizer 2006-01-30 14:31:10 UTC
Please describe the problem:
Hi ppl and thanks for Ekiga,
Same issue when calling a windows sip client , Xlite.
I hear him perfect, but my side is choppy and noisy. 

Non of this noise happens with twinkle.
Calling the echo test at sip:613@fwd.pulver.com gives lots of broken sound,
I do manage to carry on this test in twinkle and it reports using the g711u codec.

Damien Sandras suggested it to be codec related, however, I recive audio in good
quality with this version.


I am running Gentoo : 
 uname -a
Linux blacky 2.6.15-ck2 #4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200  AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

 cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
                     VIA 8237 with CMI9761 at 0xe800, irq 10

no sound deamon is running.

 cat /proc/asound/version 
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3 (Mon Nov 07 13:30:21
2005 UTC).

 arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r
8000 -f S16_LE -
Recording WAVE 'stdout' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono

Niv

P.S


Steps to reproduce:
1. call from your end to xlite windows 2000 from ekiga


Actual results:
* talk , the far end hears bad sound
* you hear the far side fine

Expected results:
send good audio

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
none
Comment 1 Niv Vaizer 2006-01-30 21:59:40 UTC
I had three calls using the next in line GSM codec. quality is medium, but non of the issues reported.
It seems it IS a codec issue.
I dont have G771 in ekiga, how may I add it?
Niv
Comment 2 tom schorpp 2006-02-02 14:20:52 UTC
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] voice distorted/broken with at least	x-ten peers
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:14:15 +0100
From: Daniel Huhardeaux <devel@tootai.net>
Reply-To: GnomeMeeting development mailing list <gnomemeeting-devel-list@gnome.org>
To: GnomeMeeting development mailing list <gnomemeeting-devel-list@gnome.org>
References: <43D69E44.4030806@gmx.de>

thomas schorpp a écrit :

>hi
>  
>
Halo Thomas

>just phoned with my father who is using x-lite on winxp.
>
>speex(narrowband) coded outbound voice distorted...totally scrambled.
>
>gsm codec acceptable.
>
>other codecs unusable scrambled voice too or no common codec on handshake found.
>
>could you pls test ekiga cvs with popular proprietary peers and report on codecs interop/compat?
>  
>
From test that I made some times ago, gsm, g711u and g711a are the best 
codecs to use between UA's (GM and XLite included). iLBC is good but not 
always stable. Speex never convince me.

If you want to reach landlines phone, g711u and g711a are mandatory, 
some GW's add also gsm beside g729 (proprietary) and more and more g726

All of my friends using Xlite have gsm, ulaw and alaw activated, that's 
all. And no problem to phone them with Ekiga in direct or through an 
Asterisk server.
-- 
Daniel
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Comment 3 Damien Sandras 2006-02-03 10:06:13 UTC
Niv, reopening a new bug report several times with the same description is not something nice to do. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329180 ***
Comment 4 Damien Sandras 2006-02-03 10:59:01 UTC
G.711 is called PCMU/PCMA
Comment 5 Niv Vaizer 2006-02-04 17:15:18 UTC
sorry, I didnt notice it.
I am new to bugzilla.
will pay more attention
pls delete this