Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Sound choppy with USB headset

[Alan L Tyree <typhoon aanet com au>]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:42:38 -0400
Patrice LaFlamme <nrn patrix org> wrote:

> 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.

It's not a universal problem. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper Beta and using
a USB headset with no problems at all.

Alan

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