One Hundred Papercuts

Empathy needs "comfort noise" for VoIP pauses, showing connection hasn't disconnected.

Bug #488073 reported by Vitaly
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Unknown
Wishlist
One Hundred Papercuts
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gst-plugins-farsight (Ubuntu)
New
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

It's a normal practice to add white noise to conversation pauses during VoIP calls. That prevent thinking, that connection is broken. Empathy should do it.

When both sides keep silence, there no sound at all in speakers. It's normal practive in IP telephony to substitute silence with a very small generated noise. That increase impression, that connection stil exists.

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. Your Bug Description is confusing, what are you trying to get changed in empathy? Maybe re-wording the description may help me understand it better.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Vitaly (vitaly-rcdesign) wrote :

When both sides keep silence, there no sound at all in speakers. It's normal practive in IP telephony to substitute silence with a very small generated noise. That increase impression, that connection stil exists.

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote : Re: Empathy needs "white noise" for VoIP pauses, showing connection hasn't disconnected.

Ok, thanks for the clerification. This is an upstream issue and should be sent to the developers using the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME .

summary: - Empathy needs "white noise" for VoIP pauses
+ Empathy needs "white noise" for VoIP pauses, showing connection hasn't
+ disconnected.
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

this is a feature request so not a papercut

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607162

description: updated
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks for sending this upstream.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

upstream says "What you are asking for is named "Comfort noise" and should be implemented in
Farsight/GStreamer; not Empathy"

Omer Akram (om26er)
summary: - Empathy needs "white noise" for VoIP pauses, showing connection hasn't
+ Empathy needs "comfort noise" for VoIP pauses, showing connection hasn't
disconnected.
Vish (vish)
affects: empathy (Ubuntu) → gst-plugins-farsight (Ubuntu)
Changed in gst-plugins-farsight (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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