Sergei Steshenko ha scritto:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:03:54 +0200
EmIScA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you tried with skype 1.3beta with alsa support?
Sergei Steshenko ha scritto:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:32:41 +0200
Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
After upgrading to 2.6.17 skype on my Creative SB AWE64 PnP started to sound
with really metallic voices, the speed and the tone seems similar to real
but the voice is really metallic. I have tracked that down a bit, but don't
really know what the problem is.
I'm only able to find this problem with skype not with kiax or other similar
software, the problem happens with the stable skype or with the latest beta
they have in oss mode (they are adding alsa but that looks also broken for
my card).
I've tracked that down to the changes from alsa version 1.0.11-rc2 to rc3,
in fact I compiled those two versions for 2.4.33-rc2 and got the very same
problems with 1.0.11-rc3 and later versions while 1.0.11-rc2 worked ok.
Also, PCI cards seem to work ok with skype and modern versions of alsa, so
I guess this bug could be related to awe cards, maybe all sb16 based stuff.
After looking at the changes in my configurations for rc2 and rc3 or later
versions (I even tested version 1.0.12-rc1) I saw that rc2 didn't yet have
the new oss-plugins, so I said, ok we'll remove the oss-plugins from -rc3 or
later with --without-pcm-oss-plugins on configure and that'll do it.
Wrong, after removing the oss plugins the voice I get when calling the skype
test is ok but I get silences in the middle of it which makes it last longer
than it should and continue after the "ding", also when I hear back what has
been recorded the tone of my voice is really much higher than it should,
even though the speed of it seems similar than it should.
Well, like I said... I have only managed to find this kind of problems with
skype (I'd sugest you use the stable version if you want to test it) and
they are implementing alsa support, so if the bug only happens with skype
maybe it's not worth the effort, but it looks to me that this is a problem
that other programs may also have, and that is why I'm reporting it.
Machines used for my tests were Pentium III and AMD K6-3, using Debian sid
and testing (they have alsa libs 1.0.11).
Well, if you need more info or tests just ask for what you need. Thanks for
making ALSA so good.
Regards...
If you have a powerful enough machine you might consider using QEMU in
which you'll run older versions of kernel + ALSA + Skype.
It does work, though my machine (Athlon XP1900+) is not powerful enough,
rather, I didn't try to do all the possible tweaks, so out of the box
it is not powerful enough.
The suggestion, of course, is a workaround, not a real solution.
By the way, QEMU emulates different audio HW (ES1371), so maybe even
modern kernel + ALSA + Skype will work.
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No, I have Skype version 1.2.0.21_API.
Well, you can try to install the new skype.. they solved many of the
sound bugs they had in previous versions.
I use it configured to use alsa. I had to remove all the asound.conf
and .asoundrc files to make dmix/dsnoop working (ubuntu dapper, with
alsa 1.0.11 packages backported). I have and alc-850 (snd-intel8x0).
With alsa 1.0.10 it didn't work...
Bye
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