Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] CELT codec warning

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 05 mars 2009 à 21:10 +0000, Peter Robinson a écrit :
> >> Its just been pointed out to me that the latest celt 0.5.2 release is
> >> incompatible with the 0.5.1 release. It compiles against it perfectly
> >> well but I believe the changes to the new allocation algorithm make it
> >> incompatible with previous releases. Welcome to the bleeding edge!
> >>
> >
> > It would be interesting to test. Eugen wanted to do some tests before
> > the release (video codecs and others).
> 
> Well I added this to a Redhat bug about it (celt is being used in
> virtualisation for audio):
> 
> <quote>
> well 0.5.1 was never linked against anything in Fedora but I presume this means
> that in the case of ekiga if someone with an ekiga using celt 0.5.1 calls
> someone with ekiga using celt 0.5.2 this isn't going to work?
> </quote>
> 
> And the response that came back was:
> 
> <quote>
> It's not 24pt high but I've added some additional warning text in bold to the
> celt-codec.org page, to the download page, and to the release notes. Obviously
> this doesn't fix the pre-existing problem, but hopefully it will reduce it in
> the future.
> 
> Regarding ekiga, thats correct. Ekiga is also not yet compatible with the
> (still being written) CELT RTP payload. (Ekiga did its own thing with CELT
> without consulting CELT development, which is fine, but what they did isn't
> something we can standardize on so it's not going to be interoperable until it
> is updated at some point in the future).
> </quote>
> 
> And there is now a warning on the website for download. It looks like
> most versions of celt aren't inter operable.

Indeed, once their RTP profile is written, we will fix the codec.
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