Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] video decoding debug

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

André Abrantes wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 20:49, thomas
> schorpp<thomas schorpp googlemail com> wrote:
>> André Abrantes wrote:
>>> Hello there.
>>>
>>> I have been working with Ekiga for quite some time and now I am
>>> testing how it handles video calls coming from different environments
>>> via Asterisk. But let's not focus on that right now.
>>>
>>> Somehow, we are receiving media packages but, at the end of the call,
>>> the decoder says it has not decoded any frame.
>> NotOurBug, report to digium pls.
> 
> Sure! I was just wondering if there was any way to check a log/debug
> of what happens between the RTP stack (who receives frames) and the
> decoder (who doesn't).
> Ekiga has been my favorite client for debugging SIP, calls but this
> time I see no tracing of what is happening to theses frames...
> Will I have to hack its code and see if a part of the code reports an
> error? Maybe a malformed H.264 frame...

To my knowledge, looking at the code is the only solution.

>>> So, does anyone know a way for me to debug ekiga/opal/x264 to find why
>>> H.264 frames are not getting decoded?
>> Record the stream to file and feed mplayer/transcode/ffmpeg with it to
>> check.
> 
> Nice, thanks. =D

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Eugen