SIP client on PPC [partially solved]

bruda · Last edited by bruda on Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

Is anybody using a SIP client on PPC? I have tried linphone and kphone, which build fine and also connect fine to SIP servers and stuff. Problem is, they both seem to have (what I believe to be) indianness issues--in that they produce white noise as output (in the linphone case this also happens with the test of the ringer).

So is anybody using any of the two applications (or some other) with more success than me? Thanks in advance.
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bruda · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

FYI, linphone's endianness issues are fixed with the ALSA driver by changing the line 64 of file linphone-0.12.2/mediastreamer/alsacard.c to contain "SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_BE" instead of "SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE". The OSS part is not fixed by this.

I still seem to have some issues with actual conversations though. I find it sort of strange that nobody has used SIP clients on PPC, please share your experience.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Can you get kphone corrected with such a hack? Because debug output of kphone tells something about s16, s32 when I try to use Alsa.
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bruda · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:

The problem with kphone is that I have no means to test it except bother my friends. That's why I worked with linphone, it allows you to play the ring tone so that it is pretty easy to figure out whether your sound is working without placing any call. ;-)

I'll take a look at kphone too, but don't hold your breath.

By the way I would much prefer OSS emulation, ALSA by itself plays it kind of choppy on my system, it was always like this (but I cannot seem to find such an easy fix on the OSS side in linphone). How does your ALSA system behave? Mine is a Powermac "Snapper" on a Tibook rev IV currently running Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r6.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject:

For testing reasons my provider sipgate.de has a number for. Under 1000 there is a test call, but I only get white noise. I know how to use kphone on x86.
Maybe you can just have another sipaccount running on a different computer for testing?

I haven't compared alsa with oss on my iBook G3-600. xmms runs fine now with xmms-alsa, although it had some problems with playbackspeed at the beginning. Other sound applications I haven't tested yet. mixxx takes a lot of cpu-power (for my G3), the same with xine and mplayer. But I was able to watch a movie with mplayer and alsa.

About linphone: It emerged without any GUI, although I have use=gtk, but -gnome. Is that right?
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Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

I emerged the new 4.1.1
There is a file called dspoutalsa.cpp, which has the same entry.
I changed that to S16_BE too. Alsa don't crashes but no sound at all.
And OSS makes no noise in this version, but no sound.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

The new kphone 4.2 doesn't play noise anymore, but plays nothing at all.
I also tried your patch towards S16_BL.
I tried OSS and Alsa.
Curious that if I call the sipclient from outside, I hear the ring as usual, so kphone should know the sound device.

With linphone I still fail to build the UI with. I have a USE gtk but -gnome.
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meyerm · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject:

Just tried kcall on PPC. Also noise...

gnomeza · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 97

linphone-1.0.1 is working very well for me with ALSA - no patching necessary.
This is as long as I let linphone have sole access to ALSA (it uses the plughw:0,0 ALSA device by default).

Configuring ALSA dmix & dsnoop (ALSA software mixing) and adding

Massimo B. · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject:

I still don't know how to get the gui of linphone. It compiles for textonly.
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gnomeza · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 97

My version of linphone is emerged with the following flags:

Massimo B. · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:59 am Post subject:

I have gtk gtk2 -gnome, because I have no gnome. gtk should be enough. How can I just tell linphone the use +gnome?
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gordin · Guru Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 300 Location: Germany/WI

echo "net-misc/linphone gnome" >> /etc/portage/package.use

Massimo B. · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

linphone works now. Sound works also on the G3iBook. It seems as if the new source is already fixed.

But the sound quality is very jumpy, too much to use it properly. It is the same problem as with the mplayer or xine.
There I can use "esound" which is far better. By the way, what is esound? Is it usable for applications which don't have support?
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Massimo B. · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject:

Since some updates and a new kernel, linphone plays fine (also realplayer has no sound problems anymore).
But now I just don't get the microphone activated.
Increasing monitor level just gives me a feedback, but internally the digital input source is muted I think.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject:

Curiously the microphone works now, I just can't find a slider for micfrophone volume in alsamixer.
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