idle is a 4 letter word to a realtime application.

The core keeps a single high-priority thread to keep 1ms timing and expands that broadcasting
to hundreds or thousand of threads who need accurate timing.

Your choppy audio is caused by linksys lying about the packet len that it's using and we set our timer
to the wrong speed.


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, <erandr-junk@usa.net> wrote:
Wow... Thinking about this timer setting and about how it converted
send()/recv() from non-blocking to blocking, I straced freeswitch when it was
supposed to be idle. It never pauses! It keeps going in and out of select()
every millisecond! Why??

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:31:46 PM EST
From: erandr-junk@usa.net
To: <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choppy sound with PCMU

> Thanks. I tried that... Just forcing SPA to 20ms didn't change anything.
Just
> installing SVN trunk didn't fix it either, but setting that option
afterwards
> surely did the trick.
>
> One thing I've noticed while staring at the console is that it *looks like*
> that w/o the new setting the stuttering happens when FS either re-registers
> itself with the provider or one of the SPA's port re-registers with FS.
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:33:26 PM EST
> From: Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale@gmail.com>
> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Choppy sound with PCMU
>
> > linksys has had a bug for eons that can be fixed by setting the ptime (or
> > rtp packet size in their terms)
> > in it's firmware to .20 instead of .30
> >
> > Asterisk does not use async RTP like we do so it's never a problem
> > you can disable the timer by setting the channel var rtp_timer_name=none
or
> > sofia param rtp-timer-name to none in the sofia profile.
> >
> > You should also test this on latest SVN trunk or wait for pre8
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:52 PM, eaf <erandr-junk@usa.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I should also add, after browsing through some topics here, that my SIP
> > > provider sends 172-byte RTP frames, which is in accordance with
ptime:20
> > > that it gives to FreeSWITCH.
> > >
> > >
> > > eaf wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to migrate from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH (really like the
way
> > > how
> > > > it can be programmed), but ran into one issue with sound quality that
I
> > > > just cannot workaround by myself. I would describe the sound problem
as
> > > > being "choppy". From time to time small portions of the other party's
> > > > voice are dropped, so the voice kind of stutters. This is not too
bad,
> > > but
> > > > is really noticeable, happens in every call and I don't experience
the
> > > > same with Asterisk running on the same box. I attached two files:
> > > > freeswitch.wav and asterisk.mp3 to illustrate my point.
> > > >
> > > > Issue completely goes away, if I set inbound-proxy-media to true.
> > > >
> > > > The way how I test is to connect SPA-2000 via 10mbps LAN to the box
> > > > directly exposed to internet, and then dial a toll-free via
FutureNine
> (a
> > > > SIP provider).
> > > >
> > > > The codec in use is PCMU. Can't really try PCMA or anything else with
> > > this
> > > > provider. Only PCMU. Tried to match ptime of provider (30) with ptime
> of
> > > > the SPA, didn't get any improvement. Tried turning off recording, no
> > > > change either.
> > > >
> > > > What puzzles me is that even with greedy codec negotiations and with
> PCMU
> > > > on both sides of  FreeSWITCH, it's still saying that
> > > > TRANSCODING_NECESSARY. I'm attaching relevant portion of
freeswitch.log
> > > to
> > > > illustrate.
> > > >
> > > > The box isn't particularly fast: Linux (Debian 4), CPU - AMD Geode
> LX800
> > > > with 997 bogomips. 256MB RAM. Only one call in progress, so I hope
that
> > > > it's not a performance issue.
> > > >
> > > >  http://old.nabble.com/file/p26594250/freeswitch.wav freeswitch.wav
> > > >
> > > >  http://old.nabble.com/file/p26594250/asterisk.mp3 asterisk.mp3
> > > >
> > > >  http://old.nabble.com/file/p26594250/freeswitch.log freeswitch.log
> > > >
> > > > Tried both 1.0.4 and 1.0.5pre5. Same results.
> > > >
> > > > What should I do next? Calls are consistently bad with FreeSWITCH,
and
> > > > consistently show no glitches with Asterisk.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
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