Re: [Ekiga-list] h263 in Debian lenny / bare number dial

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

Hi,

Phil Reynolds wrote:
> I am trying to get ekiga to work in Debian lenny, with the H263 codec, 
> but when I build opal, H263 is not supported. I am currently backporting 
> packages from experimental.
>
> What do I need to do to get h263? Is there a better way to do this, 
> remaining otherwise on lenny?

You must install libavcodec-dev not from debian (h263 is not dfsg), but 
from other site, for ex. http://debian-multimedia.org.

> With ekiga 2.*, I could send sip:number to my Asterisk box and it would 
> dial that number in the context. I have to put @fqdn on the end now for 
> that to work - is there, or will there be, a way to fix this?

I think that this automatic completion was removed, in order to have a 
proper address (think to e-mails: you put always the host address too). 
 However, it has now an autocompletion feature (à la firefox).

Cheers,
--
Eugen