[Asterisk-bsd] SoftPhone for BSD

[Kavit Munshi]

Lane wrote:

>Whoops!
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>Kavit!
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>Thanks Preston
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>and Thanks Kavit.
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>I got my top/bottom posting up-mixed!
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>lane
>On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:54, Lane wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 01 March 2005 19:09, Kavit Munshi wrote:
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>>>Preston Garrison wrote:
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>>>>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 :)
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>>>>
>>>>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
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>>>>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 :)
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>>>>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
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>>>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
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>>>Kavit
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>>Garrison,
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>>Thanks for your comments.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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:
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>>"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."
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>>Are you using ALSA?  Maybe that's what I'm missing...
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>>Anyway, thanks for your observations.
>>
>>lane
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yeah i have to set it every time i start it which is a pain, but my 
machine is perpetually on and the calls from the Zap interface on my * 
box get transferred to my workstation.  I am not using ALSA, just 
standard FreeBSD audio drivers. Preferred codec is G711u and Size of 
payload is 80 (10 ms Sample).

Also my sound card isnt very decent at all. I have an old on board 
Crystal WDM that runs on ISA. Sound quality is pretty good.

regards

Kavit