Re: Ekiga 4.0.1 and Renavisio

Great, glad to hear that!

Eugen

On 02/09/15 16:11, Samuel VISCAPI wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Just to let you know we had our first real RENAVISIO conference with
> Ekiga 4.0.1 today.
>
> There were 8 participants (4 audio + 4 video), and everything worked
> perfectly !
>
> Many thanks to everyone involved in that great piece of software :)
>
> Cheers, Samuel
>
> Le 21/07/2015 15:18, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>> Hi Samuel,
>>
>> I propose you to compile opal 3.10.10 with libav version 8, or
>> with version 9 and the patch libav9 from
>> https://sources.debian.net/src/opal/3.10.10~dfsg2-1/debian/patches/,
>> or version 10 with patches libav9 and libav10.
>>
>> (For your information, the unstable code should work without
>> patches with ffmpeg, but not with libav.  Hehe, there are several
>> if-s here, but hopefully in the near future everything will be
>> settled.  Debian has just switched from libav to ffmpeg.)
>>
>> Eugen
>>
>> On 21/07/15 13:23, Samuel VISCAPI wrote:
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>>> Hi Eugen,
>>>
>>> For now, as this is for production environment, I'd rather stay
>>> on the stable 4.0.1 version. But if time permits, I'd be glad to
>>> test the unstable branch and report here though :)
>>>
>>> On a side note, I didn't managed to compile Opal 3.10.10 with
>>> either libav 11.4/10.7 or ffmpeg 2.7.2. I tried to apply the
>>> Debian patches you told me about, but the patch command failed on
>>> some chunks. I tried to add these by hand, but that only led to
>>> more errors... Could you help me on this one please ?
>>>
>>> In the mean time, we received the new x86 based machine, an Intel
>>> NUC D34010WYKH, which is of course a lot more powerful than the
>>> tiny Raspberry Pi 2.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Samuel
>>>
>>> Le 16/07/2015 16:03, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>>>> Samuel, would it be possible to you to use ekiga unstable code
>>>> instead of ekiga 4.0.1?  We are fixing bugs for the former,
>>>> while the latter is too old to fix bugs.  Note that for the
>>>> moment you need to use ffmpeg, not libav, for the unstable code
>>>> of ekiga.
>>>>
>>>> On 16/07/15 15:52, Samuel VISCAPI wrote: Hi Eugen,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your offer, but I won't have too much free time
>>>> today for testing, sorry. I could be more available tomorrow
>>>> morning, I'll let you know.
>>>>
>>>> I found something quite interesting: even though the Raspberry
>>>> Pi 2 supports the NEON set of instructions, I couldn't get
>>>> libav-0.8.17 to compile with NEON enabled.
>>>>
>>>> I just checked with libav-11.4, and the configure script seems
>>>> to like NEON better :) Using these instructions could lead to
>>>> a significant performance boost on ARM platform, and maybe make
>>>> Ekiga usable on the Raspberry Pi 2. I'll give this a try ASAP
>>>> !
>>>>
>>>> Ultimately, If that doesn't work, we'll have to use a beefier,
>>>> x86 based machine (which is already ordered).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Samuel
>>>>
>>>> Le 15/07/2015 20:00, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>>>>>>> Hi Samuel,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We can make some tests tomorrow if you wish, I have
>>>>>>> access to renavisio too.  Note that I will use the
>>>>>>> development code in order to allow to fix any issue which
>>>>>>> might appear.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Eugen
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/07/15 17:53, Samuel VISCAPI wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I managed to compile Ekiga 4.0.1 with H.263 support,
>>>>>>>> with libav-0.8.17 :) With this build I could join a
>>>>>>>> Renavisio conference and have a short, rather sluggish
>>>>>>>> (~15 FPS + stuttering sound) talk with my
>>>>>>>> colleague...before the Raspberry PI 2 crashed ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'll try again later with some overclock and / or more
>>>>>>>> memory dedicated to the GPU.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stay tuned !
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers, Samuel
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Le 08/07/2015 12:54, Samuel VISCAPI a écrit :
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your answers, I'll try to build Ekiga
>>>>>>>>> with H.263 support ASAP. By the way, is there a
>>>>>>>>> recommended version of libav for that purpose ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> @ Eugen: I built Opal 3.10.10 from sources, do I
>>>>>>>>> still need to apply those Debian patches (on
>>>>>>>>> Raspbian/ARM) ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cheers, Samuel
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Le 07/07/2015 17:15, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>> On 07/07/15 16:38, Samuel VISCAPI wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> This is my first post to that mailing list :)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'd like to use Ekiga to participate in a
>>>>>>>>>>> conference hosted on Renavisio, the French
>>>>>>>>>>> education visioconferencing platform:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://visio.renater.fr/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I managed to join the conference room using the
>>>>>>>>>>> SIP protocol. I had to set DTMF mode to RFC 2833
>>>>>>>>>>> in order to type in the password though.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Audio is working correctly, but video is not. I
>>>>>>>>>>> can't see my colleague (in CC) who's connected to
>>>>>>>>>>> the same conference room, and he doesn't see me
>>>>>>>>>>> either. The webcam is a Logitech C920, which
>>>>>>>>>>> appears to be working just fine in the "echo
>>>>>>>>>>> test" room. As for my colleague, he is using
>>>>>>>>>>> Scopia and the H.323 protocol:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.avaya.com/usa/product/avaya-scopia-desktop-and-mob
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>>>>>>>> ica
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> tions/#
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> By the way, I'm running Ekiga 4.0.1 compiled
>>>>>>>>>>> from sources on a Raspberry PI 2. I followed
>>>>>>>>>>> these instructions:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compiling_Ekiga
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> What am I doing wrong ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> P.S: Damien told me it could be a video codec
>>>>>>>>>>> issue. So far, only theora and h261 are available
>>>>>>>>>>> in the "Preferences" menu. If need be, I could
>>>>>>>>>>> install libav/ffmpeg and libx264 then recompile
>>>>>>>>>>> Ekiga.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Samuel,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I would relaly love to make Ekiga work with
>>>>>>>>>> Renavisio. I plan to test it myself, but I am
>>>>>>>>>> pretty busy at the moment.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I see at
>>>>>>>>>> https://lpsc.in2p3.fr/trac/faq/wiki/Renavisio that
>>>>>>>>>> the H263 codecs are needed.  You need libav
>>>>>>>>>> (perhaps ffmpeg works too) for that. There is a
>>>>>>>>>> patch (or two) you need to use, see
>>>>>>>>>> https://sources.debian.net/src/opal/3.10.10~dfsg2-1/debian/pat
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