I tried numerous but most of them just don't work. They fail on the
quality of the microphone. I tried two that support alsa. Kphone does,
but dtmf (the numbers) are not recognized by Asterisk :-(
I tried X-lite, but that has really terrible voice quality (mic).
I tried Sflphone (has alsa support) and that worked on FC4 (not on FC3)
and it does not work on Centos44 either:
[root at raaf ~]# rpm -i sflphone-qt-0.6.2-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by sflphone-qt-0.6.2-1.i386
sflphoned is needed by sflphone-qt-0.6.2-1.i386
yum provides libstdc++.so.6
libstdc++.i386 3.4.6-3.1 installed
Matched from:
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
[root at raaf ~]# ll /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 9 05:56 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 ->
libstdc++.so.6.0.3
I'm lost. It complains about something missing that is installed??
I try to find a softphone that works with Asterisk and Centos44, does
anyone has a good suggestion or is it better to buy a hardphone?
Thanks,
Theo
On 3/10/07, Theo Band <theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com> wrote:> > I try to find a softphone that works with Asterisk and Centos44, does > anyone has a good suggestion or is it better to buy a hardphone? >AFAIK, microphone bad quality is more related to the hardware, not the software. My onboard "Intel high definition" sound chipset (ICH7 compatible - Intel 945GNT) has a bad output sound, but a much worse input (microphone). I have tried using Windows XP, CentOS, Ubuntu, many softphones (Skype, X-Lite, Ekiga, Twinkle) and definitely the problem is hardware (or all drivers are broken). The solution was to buy a PCI sound card from a friend (Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI). Its output quality is not that good - but better than "Intel high definition" - and its input quality is of a very good usability. Although it worked very nicely on Ubuntu 6.10, the microphone is not working on CentOS yet (actually it work once, but I wasn't able to reproduce yet, maybe I was using Centosplus kernel, don't remember now), but I'm gonna invest some time on that as soon as I can. I have used Twinkle on Ubuntu 6.10. Between many free softphones, it was for sure the best. I have not used it with a personal Asterisk, but I have used it with a real VoIP company (www.vono.net.br), which *may* be using Asterisk. It had some bugs, needed to be restarted from time to time, although it was far from the last version. I would really recommend this software, if it was available as rpm to CentOS. At last, I can say Skype works on CentOS, though this is not what you want. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070310/0006c49d/attachment.html>
Leonardo Vilela Pinheiro wrote:> > On 3/10/07, *Theo Band* <theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com > <mailto:theo.band at xanadu-wireless.com>> wrote: > > I try to find a softphone that works with Asterisk and Centos44, does > anyone has a good suggestion or is it better to buy a hardphone? > > > AFAIK, microphone bad quality is more related to the hardware, not the > software. My onboard "Intel high definition" sound chipset (ICH7 > compatible - Intel 945GNT) has a bad output sound, but a much worse > input (microphone). I have tried using Windows XP, CentOS, Ubuntu, > many softphones (Skype, X-Lite, Ekiga, Twinkle) and definitely the > problem is hardware (or all drivers are broken).the output quality of the Intel branded motherboards I've used has been quite good. Microphone inputs somewhat less so, but still plenty good enough for telephony IF your microphone has high enough gain. If someone is recording high fidelity (music, etc) from microphones, I recommend they get an external microphone preamp and use the line input on their sound card, or even better a USB input/output box. for voice/telephony, USB headsets are the way to go.