Voice and Video GSoC Project

[Diego Costantini]

I apologise, I used the gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight from ubuntu, not from
sid.

I noticed that if the libraries are not exactly those you mentioned, it
probably won't work. For example, I was using the experimental repository,
so newer libraries, then one of the clients got in the chat window:
Error creating session.
You have rejected the call.

This happens only on the client on that machine, also when it is the call
initiator. When the other initiates the call, he waits on Calling... while
the other already rejected.

Sometimes they also crashed, but I couldn't reproduce it.

Anyway I made another clean install and now they look like calling each
other.
- When they manage to start the call, they get stuck when I press Hangup and
I have to force quit Pidgin.
- When I call, one client rejects the call, if I call again but this time I
accept, the same client crashes.

Since I am working on virtual machines, I have audio card configured but no
real output to check how it works, and I noticed with wireshark that during
calls they are exchanging rtp packets every 2 or 3 seconds, both at ports
7079. This doesn't resemble the tons of RTP packet I was used to see with
SIP.

Of course these are not complains but bugs I found until now and you don't
need to search for, just fix them when you'll have time :)

Anyway, the taste of calling with Pidgin is already very sweet, keep up the
great work ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Maiku [mailto:cmaiku at gmail.com] 
Sent: Montag, 2. Juni 2008 18:23
To: Diego Costantini
Cc: devel at pidgin.im
Subject: Re: Voice and Video GSoC Project

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Diego Costantini
<diego.costantini at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are right, something is missing. From the config output I got this:
>
> configure:29719: checking for FARSIGHT
> configure:29727: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "farsight2-0.10
> gstreamer-0.10 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 libxml-2.0"
> Package farsight2-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `farsight2-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'farsight2-0.10' found
> Package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search
> path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29730: $? = 1
> configure:29745: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "farsight2-0.10
> gstreamer-0.10 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 libxml-2.0"
> Package farsight2-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `farsight2-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'farsight2-0.10' found
> Package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search
> path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29748: $? = 1
> No package 'farsight2-0.10' found
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29776: result: no
> configure:29814: checking for GSTPROPS
> configure:29822: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gstreamer-0.10
> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 libxml-2.0"
> Package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search
> path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29825: $? = 1
> configure:29840: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "gstreamer-0.10
> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 libxml-2.0"
> Package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search
> path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29843: $? = 1
> No package 'gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10' found
> configure:29871: result: no
>
> Now the problem is that in Ubuntu repositories I don't have any of these
> packages (farsight2-0.10 gstreamer-0.10 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10
> libxml-2.0), or at least some of them have slightly different names and I
> assume the config won't be able to detect them.
> I didn't change anything from the default branch files, thus I expected to
> find the needed libraries included and a working config/make. :)
>
> Please help.
>

It looks like you're using an older version than the head revision at
the moment. If you'd pull the latest revision from the monotone
database it would make it a little easier for you.

As far as the packages:
 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 == libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
 farsight2-0.10 == libgstfarsight0.10-dev

Ubuntu has libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev, but not
libgstfarsight0.10-dev. You'll have to download these from the Debian
repository. In order to compile you'll need:
 libgstfarsight0.10-0
<http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libgstfarsight0.10-0>
 libgstfarsight0.10-dev
<http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libgstfarsight0.10-dev>
and in order to run it you'll also need:
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight
<http://packages.debian.org/sid/gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight>
and these packages which are in the Ubuntu repository:
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad