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

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

On 11/01/11 10:55, Thierry Simonnet wrote:
> On 01/11/2011 10:06 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
> > 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++.
> I noticed also that some opal functions are deprecated.
> Find 3 patches for compiling ekiga with opal/ptlib trunk versions :
> I can have H263 working but H263-1998 is present but crashes.
> For H264 it is more complex. Dyna does't load it.

These 3 patches allow just to use opal trunk instead of opal branch, so 
it does not advance the problem at all.

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Eugen