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

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

On 23/09/10 16:14, pablo de la fuente wrote:
> Hi Eugen,
>
> I had the same problem.
> I solved it downloading the sources of OPAL, PTLIB and ffmpeg. I followed
> this way and works.
>
> Check this links:
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compiling_Ekiga#H.264.2C_MPEG4_Part_2_and_H.263.2B_.2F_H.263-1998_using_debian_prebuild_binaries_.28maybe_working_for_UBUNTU.2C_too.29
> (you can see what dependences are necessaries)

This page is for latest version of ffmpeg, which is known not to work 
with ekiga, see below.  Maybe this page should be updated...

> For ffmpeg:
>
>
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
> For ptlib:
>
>
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
> For OPAL
>
>
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
> and for ekiga
>
>
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
>
>
>
> I have a philips web-cam on Ubuntu 10.04 with Ekiga and works fine.
>
> I'm using this versions:
>
>       Ekiga 3.2.7
>       OPAL 3.6.8
>       PTLIB 2.6.7
>
> And in Ekiga Edit->Preferences->Video->Codecs I can see h263 option.

Yes, but doesn't it crash?  Try calling 500 with H263 as video codec...

> I hope help you.
>
> Regards
> Pablo.
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Eugen Dedu<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr
> > wrote:
>
> > 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.