Re: [Ekiga-list] No video with anything other than h261

[David Woodfall <dave dawoodfall net>]

On (23/03/14 16:30), Kevin Wilson <kevin digitalarchitects co za> put forth the proposition:
> Download and install the Freepbx rpm to add a web based gui for configuring
> Asterisk or if don't use that system for anything else download and install
> the freepbx ISO, then we can test a few other options. You can also use
> Linphone on Linux or 3cx (X-lite / BRIA) on windows to test with. We are
> busy looking at setting up video calling on top of our existing VOIP
> servers that act as branch PABXs, so we can let you know what we find works
> for us.

I've managed to get video working in Linphone now and I can say that
h263 does work with Linphone, so this has to be a problem with Ekiga.

I've opened a bug and posted the -d 4 logs to see if anyone can spot
the problem.

-Dave

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM, David Woodfall <dave dawoodfall net> wrote:
>
> > On (23/03/14 13:53), Kevin Wilson <kevin digitalarchitects co za> put
> > forth the proposition:
> >
> > > What Asterisk are you running? Is it a default distro like FreePBX? There
> > > are some configs to check, but they are mush easier using the freePBX GUI.
> >
> > I'm using asterisk 11.8.1 on Slackware 14.1
> >
> > According to all the info I could find it's setup ok. I've been using
> > it for some years as a voip relay for my home phone and have just
> > started delving into video conferencing.
> >
> > But apart from my asterisk server I only get video on ekiga.net's echo
> > tester with h261 too.
> >
> > I don't really know where else to test it.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> >  On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:35 AM, David Woodfall <dave dawoodfall net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >  My asterisk server is setup like:
> > > > disallow=all
> > > > allow=alaw
> > > > allow=ulaw
> > > > allow=g729
> > > > allow=gsm
> > > > allow=speex
> > > > allow=h261
> > > > allow=h263
> > > > allow=h263p
> > > > allow=h264
> > > >
> > > > But if I try to use any other video codec than h261 in Ekiga I get no
> > > > video.
> > > > Only h261 seems to work.
> > > >
> > > > I have checked in Opal ./configure and H.263-H.264 are all 'Yes'.
> > > >
> > > > Asterisk reports:
> > > >
> > > > core show codecs
> > > >
> > > >  200001 video     h261 (H.261 Video)
> > > >  200002 video     h263 (H.263 Video)
> > > >  200003 video    h263p (H.263+ Video)
> > > >  200004 video     h264 (H.264 Video)
> > > >
> > > > So I'm unsure of where the problem is. My asterisk box is on the LAN with
> > > > Ekiga box. There is no firewall on the Ekiga box, but the server is DMZ,
> > > > if
> > > > that makes a difference? (I would have thought that that would matter if
> > > > server was on a different subnet?)
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what to check?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
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