Re: [Ekiga-list] Sound quality bad

2011-01-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/1/3 Lee Haddad : > Have been working fine with audio and video reception/transmission on > Grandstream phone. 2 weeks ago sound became greatly degraded. any suggestions? In which sense degraded? Choppy, noisy,...? Only the direction to you or only the direction to the connection partner? Fo

[Ekiga-list] Varying problems with sound output in gnome-2-26 Ekiga

2009-06-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
Trying to get more stable SIP authentifications and/or support for my UVC based webcam, I've recently installed gcc-4.4 from Debian testing (4.3.2 didn't compile it), and compiled ptlib-2.6.2.tar.bz2, opal-3.6.2.tar.bz2, and first tried ekiga-3.2.4.tar.gz but then went with the git "gnome-2-26"

Re: [Ekiga-list] could not register

2009-06-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
> I paid Diamondcard.us, it passed on my credit card account, but I cannot > register to ekiga call out service. I remember that when I paid using PayPal, it wouldn't allow me to log in right away, but only after someone at Diamondcard did a manual confirmation (he actually contacted me by phon

Re: [Ekiga-list] Unable to compile 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-06-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
> But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells me Ekiga's not > installed. You're short on details; how do you try to start Ekiga from terminal? Like, if you use an upper-case E the program would quite surely not be found. "it tells" is also unclear, like, what did the shell, which is n

Re: [Ekiga-list] Unable to compile 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-06-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. > I followed > the wiki to compile the SVN snapshot, since Ekiga, as far I can see, is being tracked in Git, not SVN, the question also coming up is which packages have you compiled and installe: ptlib, opal, *and also* ekiga itself? > But when I try to start Ekiga from terminal, it tells

Re: [Ekiga-list] Varying problems with sound output in gnome-2-26 Ekiga

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
I've put a copy of my report at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586531 What can I do to debug the problems? I guess it's a better idea to try to fix the sound problems in ekiga 3.2, than to try to improve registration (keeping them active) on ekiga 2? (If it would get to work with my

Re: [Ekiga-list] Varying problems with sound output in gnome-2-26 Ekiga

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
Do you want to see debug output? Is there sensitive information in debug output that I should strip from it? What does it mean if I have 'Sending PDU (1558 bytes)' (>1500)? This is showing up in both working and silent calls. I've seen the hint in bug 586104 about disabling codecs I'm not using

Re: [Ekiga-list] Varying problems with sound output in gnome-2-26 Ekiga

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Do you want to see debug output? Is there sensitive information in debug > output that I should strip from it? > > > > What does it mean if I have 'Sending PDU (1558 bytes)' (>1500)? This is > showing up in both working and

Re: [Ekiga-list] Unable to compile 3.2.4 on Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> I followed the wiki page at: > http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_Ubuntu Interesting, in that this suggests to check out Ekiga from SVN. I've tried "svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/ekiga/trunk ekiga" and compared to what I got from Git. It seems that the

Re: [Ekiga-list] make error

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> ../../../../lib/engine/components/opal/h323-endpoint.cpp: In member > function > ‘void Opal::H323::EndPoint::Register(const Opal::Account&)’: > ../../../../lib/engine/components/opal/h323-endpoint.cpp:277: erreur > interne > du compilateur: dans set_uids_in_ptset, à tree-ssa-structalias.c:4800 >

Re: [Ekiga-list] make error

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> In order to downgrade gcc, first you have to install gcc: > sudo apt-get install gcc-4.2 > > And then change all the link in /usr/bin to be sure to use the good > version of gcc: > $ sudo -s > # cd /usr/bin > /usr/bin# rm cpp > /usr/bin# rm gcc > /usr/bin# rm g++ > /usr/bin# ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-

Re: [Ekiga-list] make error

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Lot of thanks to your help but im so novice to do this under linux. Did > you > know free visioconférence software under linux or windows who supports > IPv6 > ??? You could go through the Comparison_of_VoIP_software wikipedia page and check each for ipv6 support. Or you could learn how to get

Re: [Ekiga-list] make error

2009-06-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
> There is a channel for Ekiga, too (#ekiga on irc.freenode.net). Correction, #ekiga is on irc.gnome.org (not freenode). Christian. -- GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate und Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 __

Re: [Ekiga-list] mailing list archive

2009-06-22 Thread Christian Jaeger
> > You should send us the (compressed) output.txt file after: > > ekiga -d 4 2>output.txt > > Please can I check that I type this in to the terminal? I guess the question may be on whether you're on Windows. For Unix derivates, this is to be entered in a shell in a terminal (in an X windows dis

[Ekiga-list] Recovering from apps hanging trying to use ALSA

2010-03-01 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I've finally found out how to cure the problem where applications using sound like Ekiga (but also Twinkle, QEMU, ...) won't start anymore but just hang: they are blocking trying to get a SysV IPC semaphore. Honestly, I didn't expect ALSA to be using SysV IPC. Anyway, find the attached scrip

[Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low pass filter

2010-03-01 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I'm using Ekiga and Twinkle with the Diamondcard.us service as my main phone service. People are telling me every now and then that the sound quality is pretty poor, and in fact when I listen to my voice on the echo service it's always been quite much worse than when using a "normal" phone I

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low pass filter

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
Well, I wouldn't say my hardware is cheap; it's a ThinkPad T61 laptop, worth around 1800 USD when bought new about 2.5 years ago. Christian. ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low pass filter

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Isn't it waht the "plughw:0,0" special ALSA device is supposed to do by > itself ? > We rely on it. > How would I configure Ekiga (3.2.6-1 from Debian sid) to use that one? Or even, how do I change that device string to actually read from the right input? Since this is silent: arecord -D "plug

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
Ok, so here is a test that should enable everyone to see whether they are suffering from the problem or not: Run this to see how it sounds if the low-pass filter is missing [REFERENCE]: arecord -t raw -f dat -c 1 | bfr -m 36000 | perl -we 'while (read STDIN, $buf, 8*6) { print substr $buf,0,8 }'

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Jaeger
GRR wait, I got it all wrong of course. If the third test sounds like the first, then your setup is bad. If the third test sounds like the second, then your setup is good. Need to take more breaks. Christian. ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnom

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-03 Thread Christian Jaeger
> PS. I can't subscribe to the ALSA user mailing list, I never get the > subscription confirmation emails. Oh, I forgot that I was already subscribed. Sorry for the noise. ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low pass filter

2010-03-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
I'm not really sure how to proceed. My email to the alsa-user mailing list got no reply so far; I'm wondering whether I should play with some settings or configuration? > Isn't it waht the "plughw:0,0" special ALSA device is supposed to do by > itself ? > We rely on it. > Does that mean that it'

[Ekiga-list] Why does Ekiga not reconnect?

2010-03-05 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello If the internet connection goes down for some time, then comes back up, Ekiga will still not be reachable again even after waiting for more than 30 minutes. Setting the presence menu to "Away" then "Online" doesn't reauthenticate it, only going to Accounts and unchecking then rechecking the

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-05 Thread Christian Jaeger
Actually another correction, too: replace the perl part with: perl -we 'while (read STDIN, $buf, 6*2) { print substr $buf,0,2 }' (since I'm using mono, and the word width of the samples is 2 bytes not 4, duh; funny I actually didn't hear any difference). Now here's how I actually kind of solved

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Note: at least when having ALSA libraries (alsa-base, and the oss plugin) installed at the same time as OSS4, which you probably want because not all applications are supporting OSS, then Ekiga will still choose OSS for the output and input devices ("/dev/dsp (PTLIB/OSS)"), but ALSA ("Default (PTLI

Re: [Ekiga-list] Why does Ekiga not reconnect?

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
> The best is to start ekiga with "ekiga -d 4 2>output" and post a bug > report with the output.  We will analyse it and probably send it > upstream (opal). I will do that as soon as I find time (I'll be busy and hope I won't 'forget'). > >> Why is this? It has been this way for a long time, and

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Another note for those who want to try it: It's imperative that OSS4's vmix0-src is set to Fast (not High). This is said to be the resampling quality, and of course you'd be tempted to set it to High, as I did after everything worked. Can't hurt you think, on a 2.5 Ghz dual core, and my testing sh

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-06 Thread Christian Jaeger
Ok so I've played with suspend. OSS4 does not support suspend/resume at all. Upstream comes with two scripts "soundoff" and "soundon" which help to handle shutting down and reinitializing it. Bad part number 1 is that those are missing from the Debian packages; good part is I've solved that by tak

Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

2010-03-13 Thread Christian Jaeger
> (1) Do I need to make a special provision for firewalls and routers to make > calls? Have you tried http://www.google.com/search?q=ekiga+firewall ? As I mentioned in an email about a week ago, Twinkle works in one environment where Ekiga doesn't. I don't know why yet (it's quite a broken networ

Re: [Ekiga-list] Bad sound quality because of missing low passfilter

2010-03-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
> It's imperative that OSS4's vmix0-src is set to Fast (not High). (... High) > broke ringing in Ekiga. It would just be silent, > quitting Ekiga at that point makes it close the windows but hang (not > fully exit), hitting ctl-c then makes a short duration (~0.1 seconds) > of the ring tone played

Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

2010-03-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
Regarding STUN, as far as I know Ekiga 3.2.6 *always* uses STUN (stun.ekiga.net) (it's "builtin" and not part of the preferences anymore). Regarding the user interface not opening: this could be either a problem with networking *or* a lock in ALSA. See my recent email "Recovering from apps hanging

Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

2010-03-15 Thread Christian Jaeger
PS. note that you are somewhat vague or confusing yourself, too. You say: > I'm pretty sure I have a definitive answer. A definitive answer for what? Or do you mean you don't have an answer? > I installed version 3.2.6, and it consistently passed the echo test with > several sites. Which sites

Re: [Ekiga-list] Recovering from apps hanging trying to use ALSA

2010-03-16 Thread Christian Jaeger
Nope, I attached a script (using gmail, and I suppose that works as it should). Where did you get the bin file from? It will be an issue of the archival software if you don't manage to get the script out of it. No I didn't file a bug report to ALSA yet. (Have you read that this has been suggested

Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

2010-03-16 Thread Christian Jaeger
>> > I'm pretty sure I have a definitive answer. >> >> A definitive answer for what? Or do you mean you don't have an answer? >> > > The question was whether special provision is needed for firewalls and > routers, for making outbound calls.  As far as I can tell, the answer is an > unequivocal NO.

Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

2010-03-16 Thread Christian Jaeger
> OK, but they need to fix documentation and directions, if they have not > already. Who is they? Probably nobody working on Ekiga and related libraries is paid for their work, and no volunteer is obliged to do anything. > Currently there is a long, rambling section on use with firewalls and > ro

[Ekiga-list] Packages with fixed NAT for Debian?

2010-03-31 Thread Christian Jaeger
I hear there has been a NAT bug fixed lately, which might be the reason that Ekiga doesn't work with my VPN setup (Twinkle works). Is the fix in sid or testing already? If not, is there a patch? Christian. ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org

Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga drops registered connections...

2010-04-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
I'm having the same problem (using Diamondcard), and no, I'm not reachable when that happens. This is the main reason that I'm using Twinkle. I've reported this before (on the mailing list iirc) and have been asked to provide log output, but being short on time and running Twinkle because of this,

Re: [Ekiga-list] wlan0 hangs after a while

2010-04-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
Obviously this does not appear to be a problem with Ekiga, you should try to find help from the Ubuntu community. Anyway, it may be possible to revive your wlan interface by unloading the driver (ifdown --force wlan0, ifconfig wlan0 down, rmmod the-name-of-the-module (see lsmod), modprobe dito). C

Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga w/VoipDiscount.com -

2010-04-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/4/22, David Ford : > Currently I have an ALSA error that I have tried to fix but I have > managed to get no audio output in Ekiga and a feedback screech if I > unplug the head set. The feedback is most probably because *playback* from the mic is enabled. In alsamixer (the commandline tool), i

Re: [Ekiga-list] Packages with fixed NAT for Debian?

2010-05-26 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/3/31 Eugen Dedu : > Christian Jaeger wrote: >> I hear there has been a NAT bug fixed lately, which might be the >> reason that Ekiga doesn't work with my VPN setup (Twinkle works). Is >> the fix in sid or testing already? If not, is there a patch? > > The pat

Re: [Ekiga-list] Packages with fixed NAT for Debian?

2010-05-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/5/27 Eugen Dedu : > This could be because your packet has more than ~1500 bytes.  Check off a > few codecs and try again. There are only two codecs, Theora and h261. If I disable h261, video disappears completely (and audio is still silent), if I disable Theora and enable h261 there's no chan

Re: [Ekiga-list] Packages with fixed NAT for Debian?

2010-05-27 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/5/27 Eugen Dedu : > Try removing a few audio codecs instead. (Well, removing audio codecs won't revive audio will it?) Also, I've checked with tcpdump now and no packages are close to the MTU:1492 limit of the router's (ADSL) ppp0 interface. Also, I've now moved the laptop directly to the A