Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga vs Skype

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 10:28 +0200, Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Le dimanche 30 mars 2008 à 00:01 +0000, D Webb a écrit :
> > > > proving to offer the best sound quality, but many people are
> > > > having problems 
> > > > getting it to work reliably. I have been trying Ekiga 2.0.11
> > > > that 
> > > 
> > > We rarely get crash reports... My advice might be biased, but Ekiga
> > has
> > > always had a good reputation of stability and reliability.
> > > -- 
> > > _ Damien Sandras
> > 
> > I think this is because you have been re-directing bug reports to
> > other 
> > software like alsa-lib, which I reported. However, alsa-lib is pretty
> > much 
> > standard on all Linux distros. So if Ekiga is crashing because of a 
> > conflict with alsa-lib, regardless of where the fault lies, Ekiga
> > won't 
> > work reliably under Linux without some kind of changes. I have yet 
> > to see Ekiga work with Linux (default Slackware 12.0 install + Gnome) 
> > or FreeBSD 7.0, although a friend finally did get it to work under
> > Windows. 
> 
> The Windows version is beta software. We do not have any maintainer for
> it (I even removed it from the website). If we can not find a
> maintainer, that means there is no interest for it, so we can drop it.
> 
> As for the Linux version, I do not think I can agree with you about the
> numerous instability problems you describe. 
> 
> I agree the ALSA problem is annoying and is reported by several people
> (that is our number 1 bug). 
> 
> The problem is that nobody having the problem can fix it and ALSA
> developers do not seem to care about it. The ALSA plugin has been there
> several years and was working perfectly until they did some change in
> the library and triggered that bug.
> 
> Have you tried using the very latest libasound2 version ?

Also, does it occur with both sound devices (Default and direct access
to the sound card) ?
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