[Asterisk-bsd] SoftPhone for BSD

[Lane]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 19:09, Kavit Munshi wrote:
> Preston Garrison wrote:
> > When i tested a bunch of softphones for freebsd i had no luck getting
> > me decient quality. Finally ended up dedicated a pc in windows just to
> > be my phone :)
> >
> >
> > Preston Garrison
> > direct: 877-748-4142
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lane <lane at joeandlane.com>
> > To: asterisk-bsd at lists.digium.com
> > Sent: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:50:34 -0600
> > Subject: [Asterisk-bsd] SoftPhone for BSD
> >
> > Anyone know of a good software phone for BSD?
> >
> > I'm using XLite on windows, and that works great with Asterisk, but ...
> > winblows, you know :)
> >
> > I've tried kphone, but the sound is unintelligible. And I'm trying to
> > figure
> > how to patch gnophone, but that is a steep learning curve.
> >
> > lane
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> I am using kphone and it works very well. You might need to configure
> your sound device in Preferences -> Audio Settings. I use the ReadWrite
> option with the device /dev/dsp0.0
>
> So far I havent had any issues whatsoever apart from the occasional
> break up in sound but it's mostly my archaic computer and not kphone.
>
> regards
>
> Kavit
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Garrison,

Thanks for your comments.  

I have to admit that I haven't spent much time mucking with the config of 
kphone ... mainly because it doesn't seem to hold the config.   I've tried to 
set the "Read Write" radio button, but it doesn't stay set from session to 
session.  I also have tried to specify /dev/dsp0.0 in Device, but that field 
is blank the next time I start kphone.

I've also tried each of the three codecs offered (G711u, GSM, and iLBC) but 
the sound is just too choppy to understand regardless of the Read/Write 
setting, the device, or the codec.

I run asterisk on a Dell SC420 with no sound card, and I run X, kphone, and 
other desktop apps on a Systemax clone with sound card a faster processor and 
generally more resources.

I run XLite on a GateWay 400 MHz processor running W2K and that is where I get 
the best sound from an SIP software phone.

I'm running kphone 4.1.0, the latest (I think).  Do you have an earlier 
version, maybe?  www.wirlab.net had this comment about 4.1.0, but I didn't 
think it was relevant because I don't use ALSA:

"Consider the new 4.1.x release branch unstable until further notice. We hope 
to relieve the sound troubles for all you ALSA hackers out there with this 
release ... see the change log for details."

Are you using ALSA?  Maybe that's what I'm missing...

Anyway, thanks for your observations.

lane