Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Netmeeting - router/firewall

[Damien Sandras <damien sandras it-optics com>]

> Gentlemen, 
> 
> I have to excuse myself indeed as indeed it was a codec only problem.
> 
> Party one was a windows98 user where G711 is in the codec list of netmeeting. 
> That one was negotiated with my gnomemeeting.
> 
> Party two was a windows xp user where G711 is apparently not in the codec list 
> of netmeeting ... As also MS-GSM was not there , audio could not be 
> established.
> 
> Installing your MS-GSM , well the one from your download page , made the thing 
> working. Not that I'm enthousiastic though about audio quality ...
> 

The quality of MS-GSM windows is indeed not very good.

> Some related questions for the problem :
>  -> How to get G711 on netmeeting in windows xp ? (maybe too offtopic ...)

Tell him to choose LAN as networking connection.
 
>  -> How to get the SpeexNarrow-15k on windows ? For your reference, I managed 
> to get the Speex codec from openacm.org into windows netmeeting , at least it 
> displays in the netmeeting audio. But the codec seems not to match with the 
> one in gnomemeeting ? It has numerous modes 8..32KHZ Q1-Q8 ... which one does 
> in fact match , if at all , with the gnomemeeting one ?

There is a need to rename some capabilities in openh323 to be
compatible.

>   -> Is there an other way than gnomemeeting --debug=2 to find out the 
> negotiated codec ?
> 

Tools->History

> Thanks a lot for your help !
> 
> > > > > I would appreciate any clue, reference etc ... to what is going on
> > > > > and how I could possibly solve it.
> > > >
> > > > maybe you want to try with the BLOG of Craig Southern and his
> > > > explanation about H323 and NAT: (he really explains in great detail
> > > > where NAT will fail and why)
> > > > http://users.tpg.com.au/adsl87w7/blog/
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reference !
> >
> > I'd be interested in your opinion of my writing, and thank to Kilian for
> > advertising it :)
> >
> >    Craig
> 
> Even I understood it :-)
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