On Dec 02 23:33, Jarek Polok wrote: > Hello all > > We are working on a software collection for our organization: pidgin > messenger with voice/video enabled allowing for integration with > Lync / Skype for Business IM/Voice/Video/File Transfer/Desktop > Sharing/Conference: > > http://cern.ch/linux/docs/lyncav.shtml > > (a rather preliminary build, kind of proof of concept, packages quality to > be improved, but rather functional ..) > > It uses the code from: https://github.com/tieto/ (patched farstream2/ > remmina/freerdp/libnice/pidgin/sipe) plus few packages from Fedora 25 > (gstreamer1/gupnp/AV codecs etc). > > We could contribute this and include in CentOS SCls (if there is some > interest of course), however there might be a small problem here: among all > the packages needed there is a h264 video decoder based on ffmpeg > required for Skype for Business video stream decoding (packages: ffmpeg/ > gstreamer1-libav/gstreamer1-plugins-ugly): my understanding is that > ffmpeg based packages were not included in Fedora/Red Hat due to > legal/licensing reasons - and therefore I assume these would not be included > in CentOS either, is that correct ? > > The option could be to provide all other packages and point users to > a 3rd party repository (alike rpmfusion or nux-dextop.. etc) for h264 > decoding functionality (but still we would need to provide > gstreamer1-plugins-ugly package which needs to be built against > ffmpeg/gstreamer1-libav .. which could be problematic to build in > cbs.centos.org as would require access to 3rd party repos in build > system...)
I think we'll need someone from the board to speak to building/including those as dependencies, but I'm fairly sure that 3rd party repos are a no. > > Is this something we could contribute ? > > I would be glad to hear your opinion. > > Best Regards > > Jarek --Brian _______________________________________________ SCLorg mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg
