[Asterisk-Users] Sound quality with Xten Xlite softphones...

[Wiley Siler]

I just dropped my X-lite phone for the SJPhone.  
It was a hrd choice and one that was suggested to me repeatedly before I
would give in. 
My reason being that the X-Lite phone is very user friendly and worked
well sometimes.

After switching to the SJPhone I am much happier with the call quality.
The dialing is not as easy but the phone seems to work infinitely
better.
Before on X-lite I got a lot of complaints of static by people on other
side of the call.

So, for what it is worth from a reluctant SJPhone user.  SJPhone sounds
good.

W


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bruno
Hertz
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 12:08 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sound quality with Xten Xlite
softphones...

Maik Hassel <hassel at simplyefficient.ca> writes:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I started using the XTen Xlite softphones (just to get something up 
> and running quickly). Everything works fine now, but the sound quality

> is somewhat disappointing.
>
> The "sending" - e.g. everything I say, dtmf tones, etc - receives the 
> person on the other end in perfect quality, everything great. The 
> problem is in everything that I hear: May it be the recorded voicemail

> message, echo test, or someone talking on the other line, the quality 
> is mediocre at best. It actually sounds like someone is interrupting 
> the line for microseconds (like someone is wiggeling the headphone 
> cable in the plug).
> Now packet loss is unlikely, I am using other voip product for 
> international calls (like skype) and never encountered that problem, 
> and the test network only consists of two machines and a switch.
>
> Did anyone else encounter the problem? Is it a XLite problem (if yes:
> Can anyone suggest a better free(!) softphone)? Or is it Asterisk 
> related?
>

Most likely an XLite/local sound (driver etc) related problem. I'm
currently testing XLite on linux, and especially the XLite buffer
parameters have quite some impact on audio quality as well as latency,
in a tradeoff sense.

You could try other softphones, like SJPhone, and compare. If there's a
notable difference, try to tune XLite in case you want to use it, or
just use the phone which works best.

Look here for a extensive list of hard- and softphones
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones

Also, it's always beneficial to tell us the OS you're working and having
problems on (Windows, Linux, etc), since e.g. XLite on linux is still
beta.

Regards, Bruno.

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