Bug#356326: kphone: sound problem in 'sid'

[Ludovic Drolez]

Benoit Panizzon wrote:
> Package: kphone
> Version: 1:4.2-5
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> I don't know how to say exactly in english, but the sound transmittion is 'hacked', or 'fragmented' or 'shattered'.
> It's more serious if you use OSS which also adds a huge delay like if kphone buffers everything and replays it at
> half speed with gaps inserted every few ms but also with alsa it's almost impossible to understand what one says.
> 
> Happens with peer to peer connection and with a connection to Asterisk.
> 
> Installed x-lite on that computer a bit later, and this works fine, so it must be kphone and not the sound subsystem
> on that hardware.

Yes, I can confirm this bug. Kphone 4.2 seems to works on some computers and
not on others. At work with a cheap sound card, it works, and at home, with
a faster computer and better card, I have buffer overflows.
I've already reported this problem on the kphone ML.

> 
> Problem does not appear with kphone from 'sarge'.
Interesting information...

Cheers,

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