[Freeswitch-users] mod_portaudio send 3 rtp packet/60ms instead of1 packet/20ms

Łukasz Zwierko lzwierko at gmail.com
Mon May 5 17:26:08 EDT 2008


Hi,

Just a thought here: using calls like delay(), sleep() etc. for very
short amount of time (like in this case a couple of miliseconds)
should in my opinion be really discouraged. It is often a symptom of
bad programming even in an embedded enviroment, not mentioning
platforms like Windows or Linux where you can't really tell what
priority does your task have, and will it not be starved for a long
time by other tasks. I should be avoided whenever possible.
Don't want to sound like a smart ass here, but isn't there any other
way? From what I understood you wait until some  amount of voice
samples is collected? If that's the case than perhaps you can measure
an amount of data collected not the time... If these are PCM samples
than the correlation is straightforward.
Again, sorry if I'm being a smart ass here but I've seen some really
bad code with sleep() calls and such like, and I can tell you that it
only worked fine in specific conditions, and had a tendency to work
very poorly when for example CPU was under heavy load.

Luaksz

2008/5/5 Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>:
> did you try setting the ptime on the rtp to 30 or 60ms
>
> when you choose a codec in your sip settings on FS in vars.xml, instead of
> PCMU try PCMU at 30i or PCMU at 60i
> it may be that the other side is doing 30 or 60 ms and not telling us.
>
> also in pablio.c in the portaudio_mod directory in ReadAudioStream func,
> there is a sleep 1 ms too
> if the windows is really sleeping a lot longer than that, try omitting line
> 158.
> This probably will consume the whole cpu but if it fixes your problem it
> will support the theory that the sleep on windows in inaccurate.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Csaba Zelei <csaba.zelei at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > With a little hack I can make mod_portaudio to send rtp packets with
> ~24ms, ~16ms delay alternately on linux. This result in a constant 4ms
> jitter but its better than the original. (diff attached)
> > However on windows the delta between rtp packets is 15-32 ms randomly,
> with occasionally high 70-100ms delta.
> > I also tried to tweak the windows timer without success.
> > Does anybody has any idea how to make windows xp more accurate?
> >
> > Sluschny, Thomas wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > as you can see here:
> >
> >
> > http://jira.freeswitch.org/browse/MODENDP-40
> >
> > i have this problem all the time (the error mentioned in this issue was
> only related with this).
> >
> > It has to do with windows handle sleep() method, you has say sleep(1) for
> 1ms but on my
> >
> > machine it waits 15ms (it depends on your hardware, other PCs behave
> different!). So i tested around with high performance counters.
> >
> > For now i ignore that problem an set jitterbuffers on other device big
> enough.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > ________________________________
> Von: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] Im Auftrag von Zelei
> Csaba
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 19:05
> > An: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> > Betreff: [Freeswitch-users] mod_portaudio send 3 rtp packet/60ms instead
> of1 packet/20ms
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I tried to use FS in client mode, starting calls with mod_portaudio to our
> providers gateway ( a Cirpack softswitch )
> > I experienced that there is 2-3 sec delay in the call, its choppy and
> robot like.
> > I tested it with a softphone, and an ip phone and everything was fine. I
> traced back the problem to mod_portaudio sending 3 rtp packet in 60ms
> instead of 1 packet/20ms.
> >
> > Here is an rtp statistic from a call: (see
> http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/4307 for the complete list and sip trace)
> >
> > Packet    Sequence    Delta (ms)
> > 42  26138    0.00
> > 43    26139    0.02
> > 46    26140    45.69
> > 47    26141    0.02
> > 48    26142    2.96
> > 52    26143    56.31
> > 53    26144    5.75
> > 54    26145    0.02
> > 58    26146    51.99
> > 59    26147    0.03
> > 60    26148    2.96
> > 63    26149    42.95
> > 65    26150    17.06
> > 66    26151    0.02
> > 67    26152    2.90
> > 71    26153    56.99
> > 72    26154    0.03
> > 73    26155    0.02
> >
> > Did anyone else experience similar problems?
> > Is this the desired behaviour, because portaudio get data in 60ms interval
> or can I set it to 20ms somehow?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Csaba Zelei
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
>
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> >
> >
> > Index: mod_portaudio.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- mod_portaudio.c     (revision 8260)
> > +++ mod_portaudio.c     (working copy)
> > @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
> >        int ring_interval;
> >        GFLAGS flags;
> >        switch_timer_t timer;
> > +       switch_timer_t sync_timer;
> >  } globals;
> >
> >
> > @@ -282,7 +283,15 @@
> >        }
> >
> >        switch_set_flag_locked(tech_pvt, TFLAG_IO);
> > +
> > +       /* Start Synchronization Timer */
> > +       //Is it ok to always use 20ms? What about the 160 sample????
> > +       if (
> switch_core_timer_init(&globals.sync_timer,"soft",20,160,switch_core_session_get_pool(session))
> != SWITCH_STATUS_SUCCESS)
> > +       {
> > +               switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_DEBUG,
> "Sync Timer failed!!\n");
> > +       }
> >
> > +
> >        /* Move Channel's State Machine to RING */
> >        switch_channel_set_state(channel, CS_RING);
> >
> > @@ -412,6 +421,8 @@
> >        }
> >
> >        switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_DEBUG, "%s CHANNEL
> HANGUP\n",
> switch_channel_get_name(switch_core_session_get_channel(session)));
> > +       /* Destroy timer */
> > +       switch_core_timer_destroy(&globals.sync_timer);
> >
> >        return SWITCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
> >  }
> > @@ -542,12 +553,17 @@
> >        switch_mutex_lock(globals.device_lock);
> >
> >  get_samples:
> > -
> > +
> >        if ((samples = ReadAudioStream(globals.audio_stream,
> globals.read_frame.data,
> >
> globals.read_codec.implementation->samples_per_frame,
> >
> &globals.timer)) == 0) {
> > +
> > +       //switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_DEBUG, "No data
> reset timer\n");
> > +       switch_core_timer_sync(&globals.sync_timer);
> >         switch_yield(1000);
> > +
> >         goto get_samples;
> > +
> >        } else {
> >                globals.read_frame.datalen = samples * 2;
> >                globals.read_frame.samples = samples;
> > @@ -562,7 +578,9 @@
> >                status = SWITCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
> >        }
> >        switch_mutex_unlock(globals.device_lock);
> > -
> > +
> > +       switch_core_timer_next(&globals.sync_timer);
> > +
> >        return status;
> >
> >  }
> >
> >
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