Red5phone Standalone SIP improve audio quality

Sef · August 12, 2008, 2:16pm

Hi,

First, thanks for red5phone, it’s amazing !!! nice job !!!

I’ve got an ubuntu server with a standalone SIP red5phone. It’s working !!

The sound from flash isn’t good, how can I improve it ? (I’ve tried to put 44 in flex and 44000 in sip.cfg without any success, maybe I’ve to change audio_frame_size too ?). I think I need to edit java sources but where

Thanks a lot

To make it works under ubuntu :

(This is my installation on a clean Ubuntu 8.04 server)

apt-get install sun-java6-jre

cd /usr/src

wget http://www.red5.fr/release/0.7.0/debian/red5_0.7.0_all.deb

dpkg -i red5_0.7.0_all.deb

or apt-get install sun-java5-jre red5

wget http://red5.4ng.net/red5.jar
wget http://red5.4ng.net/sip.zip
unzip sip.zip

cd /usr/lib/red5

mv red5.jar red5origin.jar
cp red5.sh red5origin.sh
cp /usr/src/red5.jar red5.jar
chmod 777 red5.jar
nano red5.sh

#put it :
exec $JAVA -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy=conf/red5.policy -cp red5.jar:conf:$CLASSPATH:lib/jetty-6.1.7.jar:lib/jetty-util-6.1.7.jar:lib/jetty -xbean-6.1.7.jar org.red5.server.Standalone
#end

mv /usr/src/sip ./webapps/sip

./red5.sh to start the server …

#if you have a problem with sip.cfg, just copy it to /usr/webapps/sip

Gabor_Szokoli · August 22, 2008, 2:14pm

Wow, I’ll definitely try those instructions, thanks!

On the voice quality:

red5phone converts the flash audio to G711, which is 8bits at 8kHz.

This is “regular phone” quality, minus the transcoding.

You might be able to reach phone quality by increasing the flash audio quality, and rewriting the asao2ulaw executable to handle it.

Or you can go beyond this by picking (and implementing) a higher quality codec your recieving end can handle.

BTW when the flash client runs on linux, I experience some kind of sampling rate mismatch, I sound like Alvin and the chipmunks.

No problem with windows clients.

Sef · August 22, 2008, 4:58pm

Glad to be helpfull

And Thanks for your informations. I try to do this ASAP.

Do you know how I can change the asao rate in the asao2ulaw sources ?

asao2ulaw reads 64 byes of asao from STDIN and converts to 256 bytes of ulaw at STDOUT

It’s a little bit hard I think …

(the sound from Flash in 8 kHZ is not really good but from the phone to flash is really better … strange …)

Thanks

Gabor_Szokoli · August 23, 2008, 1:12am

Sorry, no, I was just outlying the theoretical possibilities based on my understanding of the architecture and the protocols involved, but I never dabbled in codec implementation myself.

I also wanted to point out that speech quality did not seem bad to me at all on windows clients, and the distorsion on linux clients sounds more like a sampling rate issue than a quality issue.

Are you sure your microphone gain levels are set right? Have you tried with echo cancellaton on and off? What kind of quality degradation do you experience?

And finally I know this is definitely not ASAP, but the speex codec is coming in flash plugin 10, check out the buzz on the red5 mailing list.

Sef · August 23, 2008, 8:57am

The sound is clipped from flash windows clients (not tried yet on unix clients).

I’ve tried with many gains and silence at 10…

And yes, I’ve saw speex codec buzz (http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/172335) but only for flash10 and with a new version of red5 ?..

:’(

Gabor_Szokoli · August 23, 2008, 10:24am

We experience no audio artefacts with windows clients.

We have ideal network conditions though (same LAN).

And use silence level 0.

Are you sure the microphone stream is not clipped to start with?

You could try the windows “media recorder” thingy, or if you know more flash than I do, you can probably do a local test recording.

Sef · August 23, 2008, 6:18pm

The audio stream is good, I’ve testesd with many computers on differents Internet connexions with many mic…

I don’t know whith

Maybe a problem with asterisk … ??

Gabor_Szokoli · August 24, 2008, 10:36am

You can rule out astersik and the other endpoint by taking a network capture and listening in on the G711 transmission in WireShark (formerly ethereal).

It’s simplest to take the capture on the machine running red5, either by wireshark directly, or by tcpdump (wireshark can open tcpdump dumps.)

Then in the Statistics menu there’s a VoIP entry, allowing you to “play” the selected call stream by stream.

Rem · February 13, 2009, 9:32am

I did everything according to this posting under Kubuntu. Tested, able to dial the number and proceed with call but no sound !!!

When dialing there is a sound from Flex Client but later when ‘Call established’ sound dissapears and there nothing heard

on both sides. Please advice,

Thanks

claudio3 · May 14, 2009, 4:18pm

I’m trying to modify and compile the source code of the webphone, to meet my own requirements, without any success.

I’m using adobe flex 3.0.

am I right?

does I need anything else to compile my own?

any help will be appreciated,

regards,

Dmitri_Oleinikov · June 23, 2009, 12:25am

Thx for a gr8 tip , i have tryed to accomplish this task but failed , can’t make any calls , do u think it’s possible to get some assistace for a fee?

thx

wasim1 · March 17, 2011, 6:11am

Hi,

I download SIP Phone but now I don’t know how to configured it in flex and run it. I import Flex file in flash builder and when I run the program it show me Login page and when I fill up detail it’s show me connection failde.

Please give me some idea how to run it properly.

Thanks.