Bug#1036082: linphone: Unable to enable H.264 video codec required for Zoom SIP connections

[Dennis Filder]

X-Debbugs-CC: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 08:06:49AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> Any calls to the SIP endpoint for the Zoom video chat service fail.  I
> discovered  <URL: https://github.com/bemoody/linphone-deb > with a
> recipe for how to get it working, but the "Enable H.264 video compression"
> step fail.  When I try to enable the video codec, a popup message ask if
> it is OK to download the codec, but even if I accept the download and
> press the strange empty 'confirm' popup afterwards, the H.264 video
> codec option stay disabled.
>
> And without H.264 video codec available, the call is rejected.  I
> verified this using Jami, which I normally can use to connect to the
> SIP endpoint of Zoom, but it will fail when I disable H.264.

Do you have the package mediastreamer2-plugin-openh264 installed?  It
is necessary to use H.264 and will also pull in the required package
containing the H.264 codec.

If you do have both installed and it still does not work you have to
provide more info (e.g. linphone logs etc.).

Regards.