Re: [Ekiga-list] video h263/h264 in ubuntu

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

On 22/09/10 22:43, Jacobo Urdiales wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I am a very happy ubuntu user. Nowadays I use the 10.04 Lucid version
> and would like to use my webcam to transfer video using SIP and H263.
> I noticed the though ekiga supports it in linux we need to install the
> mp4 libraries in order for ekiga to recognise them.
> So I installed ffmpeg and libopal (using the debian repositories for
> installing ekiga it also downloads the latest libopal...) but still only
> appears h261 and thedora.
> Also tried to download the source, tried to build on my system but still
> keeps on asking for dependancies issues ...
>
> The point is, does it really support h26-3/4?
> Wich is the way to get those codecs in ubuntu?

Since about one year, these two codecs do not work in ekiga anymore, as 
shown in bugzilla and various e-mails in mailing lists.

I advise you to install ffmpeg from say April 2009 and compile opal and 
ekiga with it, it should work.

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Eugen