Hey all;<br><br>My experience with Ekiga has been very good, my wife and I used to to talk while she was in remote montana last summer. Good codec support and easy to setup. I am trying out the new KDE varaint sometime soon as it has come recommended, but so far I like Ekiga for targeted VOIP. Skype is nice because alot of people use it, but Ekiga is much more powerful.
<br><br>Jerome<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 6, 2008 8:37 PM, Jack Smith <<a href="mailto:jack.delbert@gmail.com">jack.delbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jan 6, 2008 7:07 PM, William Tracy <<a href="mailto:afishionado@gmail.com">afishionado@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> You can just hit the button in Audacity with a circle on it to start<br>> recording, blab into the microphone, then hit the stop button (marked
<br>> with a square) to stop recording. You should see a new track with some<br>> sort of wave form appear in the window below the tool bar. If the wave<br>> is perfectly flat, you aren't getting anything from the microphone.
<br>><br>> Many distros like to have the microphone turned low by default, and<br>> don't always provide a graphical way to turn it up. If the mixer GUI<br>> is being unhelpful, go to the console and run:<br>
><br><br>OK, I finally found it. There is a second tab in the alsamixer gui labeled<br>"Switches". If you look inside it has a box you can check for "Mic Front<br>Input". Once I check it, my plugin mike works fine for both Audacity and
<br>Ekiga. I still can't use the microphone that's part of the webcam, even<br>though it's one of the choices, and works if plugged into my middle<br>daughter's Windows (shudder) laptop.<br><br><br>><br>
><br>> BTW, how do you like working with Ekiga? I started using Skype before<br>> I really looked into the available SIP services.<br>><br><br>I don't really know yet. :-) I tried setting up Skype years ago and
<br>couldn't make it work. Up until now I only used Ekiga for calls to my<br>oldest daughter's phone in Japan. Yesterday her fiance got Ekiga compatible<br>software working on her Mac (she's been Skype) so we have yet to find out
<br>how good it is.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>--<br>Jack Smith<br><br>English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other<br>languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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