Bug#785480: Expanding interest in bcg729

[Jaap Keuter]

On 02-08-17 23:14, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 11:11:40PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recent developments in Wireshark have seen this library being used in RTP stream
>> decoding. It would be appreciated by many users of Wireshark on Debian (and
>> derivatives) when this would be available for the Debian build of Wireshark.
> 
> The package has a mediastreamer plugin. In version 1.0.2 it fails to
> build and from what I understand it seems it would need libmediastream2.
> 
> From what I see that plugin does not change the basic library. Thus I
> see no problem with starting just with the library itself. I figure you
> (Jaap) only need the library. Is that right?
> 
> Adding the plugin later should not break anything.
> 
> Anybody working on adding libmediastreamer2? Linphone4? Will there be a
> problem with adding them in the future?
> 

Finally got around to it. This is what I found.

Based on https://github.com/ossobv/bcg729-deb (and thus
https://github.com/BelledonneCommunications/bcg729) the Debian (lib and dev)
packages were created, installed and subsequently Wireshark (master) was
configured and build.
This resulted in a Wireshark executable capable of reproducing G.729 encoded
audio from a sample SIP and RTP capture file.

Since the debian packaging includes the commit "Update to bcg729-1.0.3. Add
README. Remove mediastreamer stuff." it is safe to say the Wireshark doesn't
need the libmediastream2.

Regards,
Jaap