Ubuntu
ekiga package

  1. Bug #382234
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 382234

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In , Eugen (eugen-redhat-bugs) wrote :

From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2009-August/msg00054.html:

> > 2) I have pulseaudio running on my system and I have to use the
> > "Default" (PTLIB/ALSA) sink therefore, but my card (and webcam) are
> > constantly bombarded. If I have pavucontrol open and test any sound from
> > Ekiga, the cpu goes to 99% activity and I have to kill he stream.
> >
>
> Does it work better without pulse audio? If so, please report a bug to
> pulse audio.

Indeed if I kill the server or run with pasuspender and access the
soundcard directly then I don't see any difference in the audio quality
but I don't get the problems mentioned above. These issues are the usual
ones with Skype as well.