Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] 3.2.5 release

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

>> >> So we are preparing a new stable release.  What are the blocking bugs?
>> >>
>> >> - picture in picture does not work sometimes
>> >> - -d 4 warnings about too many consecutive I-frames, still investigating
>> >> if it is harmful or not
>> >> - initially greyed image, seems only cosmetic, still investigating
>> >>
>> >> Are there others?
>> >>
>> >
>> > The PDU>1500 issue?
>> >
>> > Here is a report from a Ubnutu user (I know, I should not trust blindly
>> > a user, but i wont be able to test before tomorrow...):
>> > "No I hadn't installed any non-free codecs (not knowingly anyway).
>> >
>> > I wanted to confirm this so I booted from clean live USB memory stick
>> > image (Jaunty).
>> > Selected ekiga for installation.
>> > Synaptic informs that the following are required: libgsm1, libopal3.6.1,
>> > libpt2.6.1, libpt2.6.1-plugins-alsa, libpt2.6.1-plugins-v4l2. (All of
>> > these come from the Main repository).
>> >
>> > Once above are installed: Ekiga has the same problem as described above
>> > (PDU exceed 1500) and same solution as you describe above also works.
>> >
>> > Out-of-the-box Audio codecs: G722, Speex(16kHz), PCMA, PCMU, G726-16,
>> > G726-24, G726-32, G726-40, gsm, ms-gsm, Speex(8kHz).
>> >
>> > Out-of-the-box Video codecs: h261, theora.
>> >
>> > So, in answer to your question, only using default packages from Ubuntu
>> > is sufficient for PDU to exceed 1500."
>> >
>> > Do we need a workaround for this before a proper fix? (TCP support)
>>
>> A workaround would be to switch off some codecs by default (for initial
>> installation), for ex. G726-24, G726-32, G726-40, gsm, ms-gsm,
>> Speex(8kHz).  What do you think?
>>
>
> Isn't that already the case ?
>
> I need to check.

The default in Fedora certainly doesn't enable them by default and we
don't do anything with that sort of config so I assume its the
default.

Peter