Re: [Ekiga-list] News on debian snapshots

[Craig Southeren <craigs postincrement com>]

Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Information about the following debian snapshot packages:
>
> 1. DC and AVC plugins in ptlib are not provided anymore.  debian has 
> changed the version of raw1394 (and other libraries), and these two 
> ptlib plugins are not compatible with this new version.
>
> 2. The non-free codecs h263+, mpeg-4 and h264 need an older ffmpeg 
> (http://www.nabble.com/Can't-compile-opal-with-avcodec-td21097280.html) 
> than debian and debian-multimedia offer, so they are not provided 
> anymore either.  You can use theora instead :o)
>
> Of course, when the compatibility is restored, these packages come back.

The H.263/H.263+ plugin works with the latest FFMpeg (I haven't tried 
ffmpeg 0.5)

   Craig

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