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During a voice call, Pidgin now sends constant audio traffic, even when there
is silence. Especially on slower connections, this can waste considerable amount
of bandwidth by transmitting nothing but ambient noise.
I used peak level data from GstLevel? in the input branch of media pipeline to
control a GstValve? put between audio source and Farsight confbin. Whenever the
peak drops below defined threshold, the valve gets closed, when sound level
reaches above the threshold, valve opens again. This effectively blocks sending
data over network in the silent periods and in my tests this simple method
worked quite well.
Silence threshold might need to be fine tuned (or switched off at all) depending
on microphone hardware and/or the noisiness of surrounding environment. I will
propose an user interface for this in a separate ticket.
Future improvement can be adding support for comfort noise (RFC3389), as the
line now stays completely mute when suppression is active, which can be a bit
distracting.
I made a tiny change in level parameter that is passed to PurpleMedia?'s "level"
signal handlers. The value converted from dB to percent was multiplied by five.
Searching through source code history seems this was done to make the value
variation displayed on call dialog level meter widgets look bigger. I think it
is better not to confuse future developers and pass the unmodified percent value
to the handler and multiply only in gtkmedia.c: level_message_cb() where it has
reason.
committer: John Bailey <rekkanoryo@rekkanoryo.org>
author | jakub.adam@ktknet.cz |
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date | Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:00:58 +0000 |
parents | c4d512212ae2 |
children | 81a2ec76c285 |
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Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul ========================================================================== For a complete list of all contributors, see the COPYRIGHT file. We've got an IRC room now too, #pidgin on irc.freenode.net. Come check us out. Current Developers: ------------------ Daniel 'datallah' Atallah - Developer Paul 'darkrain42' Aurich - Developer John 'rekkanoryo' Bailey - Developer Ethan 'Paco-Paco' Blanton - Developer Thomas Butter - Developer Ka-Hing Cheung - Developer Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - Developer Mark 'KingAnt' Doliner - Developer Sean Egan - Developer Casey Harkins - Developer Ivan Komarov - Developer Gary 'grim' Kramlich - Developer Richard 'rlaager' Laager - Developer Sulabh 'sulabh_m' Mahajan - Developer Richard 'wabz' Nelson - Developer Christopher 'siege' O'Brien - Developer Bartosz Oler - Developer Etan 'deryni' Reisner - Developer Tim 'marv' Ringenbach - Developer Michael 'Maiku' Ruprecht - Developer, voice and video Elliott 'QuLogic' Sales de Andrade - Developer Luke 'LSchiere' Schierer - Support Megan 'Cae' Schneider - support/QA Evan Schoenberg - Developer Kevin 'SimGuy' Stange - Developer & Webmaster Will 'resiak' Thompson - Developer Stu 'nosnilmot' Tomlinson - Developer Nathan 'faceprint' Walp - Developer Crazy Patch Writers: ------------------- Marcus 'malu' Lundblad Dennis 'EvilDennisR' Ristuccia Peter 'Fmoo' Ruibal Gabriel 'Nix' Schulhof Jorge 'Masca' Villaseñor Retired Developers: ------------------ Herman Bloggs - Win32 Port Jim Duchek <jim@linuxpimps.com> - maintainer Rob Flynn <gaim@robflynn.com> - maintainer Adam Fritzler - libfaim maintainer Christian 'ChipX86' Hammond - Developer & Webmaster Syd Logan - hacker and designated driver [lazy bum] Jim Seymour - XMPP developer Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net> - original author Eric Warmenhoven <eric@warmenhoven.org> - lead developer Retired Crazy Patch Writers: --------------------------- Felipe 'shx' Contreras Decklin Foster Peter 'Bleeter' Lawler Robert 'Robot101' McQueen Benjamin Miller Artists: ------- Hylke Bons - Icons Other Contributions: ------------------- Much thanks to Evan Martin <martine@cs.washington.edu> for writing GtkSpell <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net> responsible for the "Highlight misspelled words" feature and for gtk-nativewin <http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/gtk-nativewin/> the default GTK+-2.0 engine originally used in our win32 port. ** ORIGINAL LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar ** Peter Teichiman <peter@helixcode.com> Larry Ewing Jeramey A. Crawford Thanks to these boys. Peter and Larry managed to stomp out a large list of Mem Leaks. Jeramey found the remaining onees and pointed me to those. Props to the boys at Helix Code. Thanks guys. Nathan Walp A healthy amount of patches for the Jabber plugin Neil Sanchala Wrote most of the Zephyr plugin Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Wrote the Gadu-Gadu plugin David Prater <IM: dRaven43> draven@tcsx.net Log and Colour Button Images Sébastien Carpe <IM: Seb Carpe> Base HTTP Proxy Support Ari Pollak <IM: Ari Pollak> compwiz.dhs.org Resize conversation window patch Decklin Foster Many GUI improvements, other nifty additions and fixes David <IM: CrazyDavy> The neato-bigger text box S D Erle Writing a cool perl script to translate WinAIM lists to gaim BMiller A good collection of stuff. %n for away messages, import winaim lists, pic/text/pic+text for buttons, among others Lance Rocker Improved HTML formatting in logs, plus lots of debugging on *BSD. ergofobe: GNOME Url handler patch Justin M. Ward <justin@yossman.net>: Alphabetical Away Messages patch G. Sumner Hayes <IM: SumnerFool> Security Patches Brian Ryner for a little make file patch :) Ryan C. Gordon - I still think you look like Silent Bob. Elliot Tobin <elliot@bha.udel.edu> Thanks to Jeroen van der Vegt for the initial smiley plugin and images. The OpenQ Team Wrote the QQ plugin (see AUTHORS in the qq directory)