Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Test Experience with Gnomemeeing Opal CVS (18052005)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

CVS development questions should go to
gnomemeeting-devel-list gnome org ;)

I'll answer here.

Le lundi 23 mai 2005 à 09:05 +0000, Conrad Beckert a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> due to problems with my current installation on Kanotix 2005-02 (which is a 
> Debian based distribution) I decided to install a current CVS version.
> 
> What happened with my 1.2.1 was, that the people I talked with had choppy, 
> staccato sound.  (my reception is rather OK by the way.)
> 

Your reception is ok, but what they heard was choppy? 

> Anyway, I installed CVS binaries from the snapshot on seconix.com
> 
> The first challenge was to get the ptlib installed. The libpt-cvs binaries 
> have a depedency to libpt-plugin-cvs-audio and  -video which do not 
> correspond to the downloadable files . OK, that was relatively easy to 
> overcome: download everything ans nail it in using dpkg.
> 
> The next test was a direct call to both Netmeeting and Neos on my internal 
> local network. It took my a while to discover that gnomemeeting doesn't 
> listen at all the network adapters anymore. So I set /options / Network 
> Settings to eth1, knowing that this will render me unreachable from the 
> internet. (ppp0) 

Yes, we will change that in the future. That is just giving a problem
with SIP that OPAL maintainers should solve when they start working
again on it.

> 
> It's a pity that "listening to all" including lo0 (gatekeeper??)  is gone.
> 
> With those settings changed I could then establish a call to my Netmeeting 
> (not until i deactivated my firewall - which was forseeable since Netmeeting 
> isn't a good Net-citizen anyway using strange ports.) So I managed to call 
> Netmeeting and Neos and recieve calls from those endpoints - but all were 
> voice only - no video. The only thing I could see on my gnomemeeting screen 
> was myself. The other side's screen remained dark as well.
> 

Video is not reimplemented yet in CVS.

> Due to the fact that I frequently recieve calls from an overseas internet cafe 
> with strange router config and OpenPhone as user agent (as well as 
> nontechnical people) I run gnugk on my machine to avoid one way audio/video. 
> (on the same machine where Gnomemeeting runs)
> 
> Unfortunately I couldn't register as I always got "Registration failed". 
> (Check out my gatekeeper log at the end of this message please.)
> 

ok

> The next attempt was to use Graig's gatekeeper gk.voxgratia.org:1719 - no 
> avail, the same result "failed".
> 
> 
> In the need for a decent SIP user agent for Windows (with video) I couldn't 
> test this part. Any ideas, what to use? MSN?
> 

SJPhone or X-Lite seem the best choices.

> Any ideas what to do? I assume that my problems aren't general but the result 
> of malconfiguration at my side as a cvs version of which binaries are created 
> is usually somewhat tested  and hence not as completely broken as I 
> experienced. Anything missing?
> 

There is a problem when registering to some gatekeepers, fixing it
breaks other things in the SIP part. Again, that's a problem for OPAL
maintainers, but they do not seem to maintain OPAL anymore. So that's on
the TODO. I'll try to work on that problem, but it won't be before a few
days/weeks.

> Thank you in advance for your help. 
> Kind Regards
> Conrad
> 
> 
> PS: Any ideas what could cause outgoing sound to be choppy and staccato?
> 

What codec?

> ... protocols do not fit into message, please ask for them and I send them 
> over CB
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