Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting to netmeeting choppy audio/video.

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le lundi 22 août 2005 à 09:08 +0200, jo de baer a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to set up a netmeeting - gnomemeeting connection (Netmeeting to 
> netmeeting works fine).
> 
> Problem is that netmeeting person hears my audio choppy almost all the time, 
> likewise for the video. I hear and see her fine. The connection is also lost 
> quite often (recall needed). So the problem seems to be totally on my side.
> 

What codecs are you using?

> I must say even without a connection, gnomemeeting starts showing local video 
> very choppy at regular times. Stracing it, the poll() call just takes way 
> more time app. from two minutes afer launching GM. Can it be that this is 
> related to the choppy audio?


It could be. Have you checked the dmesg output? It could be a probelm
with the USB bus, or the camera. It shouldn't be choppy when there is no
call.

> 
> Technical info about my machine :
> 
> Dell D800 with Intel 82801 DB-ICH4 audio. Webcam is new model Quickcam 
> Logitech express (bad buy I guess), so I am using the 
> spca5xx-20050701 driver for that.
> 
> Linux version is SuSE 9.3, so kernel 2.6.11.etc .
> 
> Rpms : openh323-1.15.2-3, gnomemeeting-1.2.1-4.
> 
> Thanks for any help with this :-)
> 
> Jo
> 
> PS: what is strange is that while testing the setup with the 2 computer 
> cross-connected, I also had choppiness in the audio sent to the netmeeting 
> when netmeeting send a large image to me. Making netmeeting send a small 
> video capture to gnomemeeting improved the audio sent from gnomemeeting to 
> netmeeting. Did the large video cause CPU load on the gnomemeeting machine?
> But right now the problem is also there with a smaller image :-/
> 
> 
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