[pulseaudio-discuss] Odd app behavior with PULSE_PROP="filter.want=echo-cancel"

[Raman Gupta]

In my testing, Zoiper's echo cancellor does not work as well as PA's.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Russell Treleaven
<rtreleaven at bunnykick.ca> wrote:
> Also zoiper will have its own echo cancellor.
> Why not use that?
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
>>
>> On 12.02.2018 20:15, Raman Gupta wrote:
>>>
>>> When I start Zoiper with PULSE_PROP="filter.want=echo-cancel", it
>>> demonstrates some odd behavior. It ends up creating many Echo-Cancel
>>> Sink and Source streams, and I am unable to select my USB headset as
>>> the source of any of them.
>>>
>>> I think, based on the discussion around a recent crasher bug I
>>> reported, Zoiper is trying to be too clever, without being clever
>>> enough, and is actually trying to open up various streams to all of
>>> the Pulse Input and Output devices. Is this just a Zoiper issue, or is
>>> there something I can do on the Pulse side to solve this?
>>>
>>> I think one option is load the echo-cancellation module once in
>>> /etc/pulse/default.pa and then use the volume control to manually hook
>>> up Zoiper to that module.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raman
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> can't you tell zoiper which devices to use? And can you provide
>> a log (beginning when you start zoiper) so that we can see what
>> actually happens?
>>
>> Regards
>>              Georg
>>
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>
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