Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Building libopal with recent ffmpeg/libavcodec

[Howard Chu <hyc symas com>]

Eugen Dedu wrote:
> On 11/01/11 07:29, Howard Chu wrote:
> > I saw in this message
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2011-January/msg00026.html
> > that there were problems using libopal with current libx264. I had a few
> > problems compiling the H263/H264/MPEG4 plugins and wrote the attached
> > patch to address them. Now the code compiles, but I haven't got anyone
> > else running Ekiga to test against. Anyone out there able to try this?
> >
> > (You can probably ignore the configure diff; that was an earlier hack
> > when I only had static libraries for libavcodec and so the configure
> > test failed to link. The problem doesn't occur when you have shared
> > libraries that are already linked against their dependencies.)
> >
> > PS: I was just pointed to
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596006 so I've attached a
> > part of this patch there as well.
>
> Sorry, I read the bug comment before this e-mail.
>
> You can use 500 ekiga net to test.  It is always a bit of pain for me to
> test this codec, since it is not installed by default on my machine.

I already tried 500 ekiga net but it only connected with H261. I guess I can 
try again after disabling the other codecs.
> Could you please explain why lines
> +#define __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
> are needed?

Without that, there are complaints that UINT64_C is undefined, apparently the 
new libavcodec headers use this macro and by default this macro is explicitly 
disabled in C++.

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