Bug#537943: ekiga doesn't work with my freephonie account

[Eugen Dedu]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim, 2009-09-20 at 20:47 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> A fix has been committed about two weeks ago.  It will appear very soon
>> on debian, tomorrow we should make a new ekiga release.
>>
>> However, in order for freephonie to work, all the video codecs in ekiga
>> should be disabled (in Preferences).  Upstream says there is a bug in
>> freephonie server, so they plan to contact them.
>>
>> For information, the commit which introduces this "problem" is
>> http://opalvoip.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/opalvoip?view=rev&revision=22521
>>  This commit cannot be reverted, because it is needed for other SIP
>> servers... 
> 
> Ok so basically it'll not work before the upgrade, and even after that,
> no way to have video support (but maybe freephonie isn't intended for
> video anyway) 

Freephonie is audio-only.

The only solution for now is: when you want to use freephonie, disable
all the video codecs.  When you want to use other registrars (with
video), enable them (no need to restart ekiga for that).

> I'm waiting for update then, about the video codecs stuff.



-- 
Eugen