Re: [Ekiga-list] Problem Placing Call on PPC

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

On 13/12/10 01:21, Victor Bandur wrote:
> Sadly none of my friends has had time to get up and running with Ekiga.  Any volunteers? :)

If you are still alive, we can do it tomorrow morning.

> On 12/13/10 00:18, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > On 13 Dec, 2010,at 12:38 PM, Victor Bandur<bandurvp acanac net>  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Eugen,
> > >
> > > My local video is fine. I've played with all sorts of combinations of video resolution and max. bit rate with the same result.
> > >
> > > Victor
> >
> > Perhaps something hinky with the H261 codec? If you use another video codec instead (e.g Theora) and make a SIP call to another user (note: not the 500 ekiga net number), is it the same?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 12/12/10 23:22, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > > > On 12/12/10 14:30, Victor Bandur wrote:
> > > > > You can see a picture here,
> > > > > http://baldur.no-ip.org/ekiga-video.jpg
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/12/10 13:21, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > > > > > On 13/12/10 02:07 AM, Victor Bandur wrote:
> > > > > > > The call goes through to 500 ekiga net and the sound works fine
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Okay, at least you can make the test call now.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > but the video that comes back is divided into vertical stripes, each of which is reversed left-to-right, as if the image is being seen through a Fresnell lens. Unfortunately when I try to take a screen shot with gnome-screenshot or gimp the video area is black.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Take a photo of what's onscreen? I'm curious to see what you see.
> > > >
> > > > 1. This could be a driver problem, are you sure that local image is ok? For ex., does your camera show correctly your image (View->ShowCallPanel)?
> > > >
> > > > 2. Check your max video bitrate parameter in Preferences->Video->Codecs (it was set by assistant, at the beginning).