Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] 3.2.5 release

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

Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le lundi 06 juillet 2009 à 20:20 +0100, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> > > > > > 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.
>
> That's what I thought. By default, only a few codecs are enabled.

The bug is strange, since 
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/24407094/ekiga_3.2.0-0ubuntu1.diff.gz 
does not show any change related to enabled codecs in ekiga...

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Eugen