Bug 302418 - Too much noise in audio-video calls
Summary: Too much noise in audio-video calls
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: telepathy
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: call-ui (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: LO wishlist
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Telepathy Bugs
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Keywords: triaged
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-06-23 18:51 UTC by
Modified: 2018-10-27 03:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description 2012-06-23 18:51:45 UTC
Theres too much noise in audio/video calls in kde-telepathy, the noise only starts disappearing in i move the volume of ktp stream in pavucontrol to less than 20%, this applies to outgoing and incoming calls.
Comment 1 George Kiagiadakis 2012-06-23 19:14:25 UTC
Well, as far as I know, it is perfectly normal for microphones to generate noise when set on high volume, especially if the electric ground is not very stable or if the mic is on a surface where there is also a fan (laptops) or something else generating noise. To get rid of it, you *should* really keep the microphone input volume as low as possible. There is no magic trick to remove noise. The only thing that one could do from software is to detect when there is noise and lower the volume automatically, like skype does.

Therefore, I am reducing this bug to a wishlist item. Maybe we can implement this at some point, but it needs someone with knowledge of audio analysis algorithms.
Comment 2 George Kiagiadakis 2012-06-23 19:22:10 UTC
Hm, maybe this also has to do with the selected audio codec, but this is not something that we control. Farstream chooses the best codec possible automatically. But if you have gst-plugins-good installed and you call ktp <-> ktp, it should use speex, which is the best choice possible.
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-03-11 13:40:19 UTC
Zé: Have you installed gst-plugins-good?
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-24 02:04:23 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-27 03:39:22 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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