Re: [Ekiga-list] Newbie questions
Re #1: I was able to call another Ekiga user and had him call me. We were able to repeat that several times; therefore the right ports are open - yet I keep getting the same annoying error message every time Ekiga starts. [the problems in our connections were described on the thread: 'Ekiga test today'] What to do next? Re #3: Is echo problem common place with Ekiga and is a head set the only way to eliminate it? Regarding Video Quality: My camera supports res up to 720p, Ekiga is suppose to support up to 480p but the picture I observed on my screen was rather poor. Besides lighting, is there anything I can do to improve the picture? On 2/12/2013 12:19 PM, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 12/02/13 20:08, Polaris wrote: Hi, just installed Ekiga and have the following questions: 1. Connectivity: Every time Ekiga starts I get the following error message: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/ekigaporterror.jpg/ I have since manually opened all the required ports and verified that they are open with PFPortChecker but the same error message still pops up. In both Echo and Call back tests, I hear and see myself so is everything working properly and if so how do I prevent this message from appearing? Check whether you can be called too. See http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Understanding_NAT/firewall_issues_with_SIP_clients_%28eg_ekiga%29 for some information. 2. To confirm that I am getting out there and to see how things work, I wanted to call someone but every person I tried in the address book was unavailable. Would someone be so kind as to make themselves available for a short chat (I can make myself available during most of the day and am in GMT - 8 )? 3. Audio: During the tests there was a lot of echo even after I enabled echo cancellation in preferences. What can I do to improve the sound? Echo cancellation is not high quality. Buy a headset. 4. Video: Is there a way to make the video conference window occupy the whole screen (my monitor is set to 1024x768)? Use fullscreen in View menu during conversation. - VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
I was on the other end of this test. We first assumed that freezing up and loop back video problems were due to bugs in the 4.0 ver of Ekiga. If the 3.2 ver is considered more buggy than 4.0 than would someone with 4.0 installed like to give me a call so I could test my new camera properly? Thanks, sip:tr...@ekiga.net On 2/15/2013 11:16 PM, Genghis Khan wrote: Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST) el_gallo_azul el_gallo_a...@yahoo.com wrote: I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test. 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help. Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask? As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues which make Ekiga to freeze. 2. We were able to converse. 3. I was only able to see video of myself, and he was only able to see video of himself. Maybe you did not had the same video codec activated? 4. We had a brief discussion regarding the SIP protocol.Is there more than one SIP protocol? ie. Is it possible that different software uses different protocol/s, or part thereof? For example, I believe Empathy has 'some SIP support'. Do Ekiga and Empathy not talk to each other at all? a. It is possible to use different software that use same protocol. However, there may be an issue of case-problem which would result in clients that intended to be communicating with each other to not communicate. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:21:27 -0800 Justin Karneges jus...@affinix.com wrote: I think the right answer is that codec names are meant to be compared in a case-sensitive way, and the correct name of the Speex codec is speex and not SPEEX. Psi therefore uses the wrong codec name completely. This also means that it only ever worked at all with other clients (e.g. Empathy, Pidgin) because they were sending the wrong codec name to Psi. http://lists.affinix.com/pipermail/psi-devel-affinix.com/2012-November/thread.html b. It is also possible to use different software that use different protocol via gateway/bridge of 3rd party (i.e. SIP to land-line; Jingle to land-line; SIP - land-line - Skype). There are available gateways from SIP to Jingle and from Jingle to SIP. There is also Asterisk integration with Skype but I think non of them are available for the public since Microsoft took over http://freeswitch.org/node/325. c. In future, I guess, people will make plugins for Ekiga and other SIP clients that correspond with Skype protocol by reverse-engineered code, which is being censored by Microsoft and various of ISPs by blocking BitTorrent traffic of it https://github.com/skypeopensource http://the-user.org/post/skype-reverse-engineered. 5. I chose Ekiga because it is multi-platform (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX). This is necessary at the moment because most people I have been using Skype with use computers with Microsoft or Apple OS. In the long term, I think that people should be able to choose any SIP software they like, and they should be able to talk to each other. I think just like you :-) Ekiga is not yet available for MacOS, MacOS testers are needed. Linphone and QuteCom (formerly known as WengoPhone), for example, do work under all three platforms. Greg Flint PO Box 642 Parap NT 0804 Australia Phone +61 (0)8 8945 1725 Mobile +61 (0)428 279 021 Australian Central Standard Time (CST) = GMT + 9.5 sip: el_gallo_a...@ekiga.net sip: 473...@sip.diamondcard.us - VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Genghis Khan wrote: Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST) el_gallo_azul el_gallo_a...@yahoo.com wrote: I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test. 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help. Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask? As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues which make Ekiga to freeze. Hello. I do not know whether this message will get through. I have previously been unable to post to the list, and messages sent to people asking for assistance with the mailing list, have been unacknowledged. I have both Ekiga and Skype installed. The version of Ekiga that is in the Debian 6 (current stable version of Debian Linux) repository, is Ekiga 3.2.7-2. I have noticed with test calls (that is all that I have been able to make, so far, with both Skype and Ekiga - haven't yet connected up with anyone, family or otherwise, who have made contact with me via Skype or Ekiga), that the Ekiga video of me, is highly pixellated, and is of low resolution, compared with Skype. The version of Skype that I have installed, is 2.2.0.35-1, which I believe (but may be wrong) was in the Debian package repository when I installed Debian 6 on this computer. I assume that the existence of Skype in the Debian package repository, is from before when Microsoft took over Skype. I am aware that both Ekiga and Skype are in versions 4.x, not, but installing Skype from the cuirrent version, on Debian amd64, appears to now be too complicated. And, there is a weiord thing on the Skype web site - it shows that Skype is available for Debian, only for Debian 7 multiarch (?) which has not yet been released, and, it takes a bit of digging around on the Skype web site, to find the references to installing Skype on Debian 6. Anyway, the latest version of Ekiga that shows in the Debian package repository, for Debian 6, is the Ekiga v 3.2.7-2, that I mentioned above as being installed on this computer, which is running Debian 6.0.x amd64, on an Intel I3 CPU. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Bret Busby wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:31:23 From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org To: Ekiga mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Genghis Khan wrote: Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST) el_gallo_azul el_gallo_a...@yahoo.com wrote: I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test. 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help. Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask? As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues which make Ekiga to freeze. Hello. I do not know whether this message will get through. I have previously been unable to post to the list, and messages sent to people asking for assistance with the mailing list, have been unacknowledged. I have both Ekiga and Skype installed. The version of Ekiga that is in the Debian 6 (current stable version of Debian Linux) repository, is Ekiga 3.2.7-2. I have noticed with test calls (that is all that I have been able to make, so far, with both Skype and Ekiga - haven't yet connected up with anyone, family or otherwise, who have made contact with me via Skype or Ekiga), that the Ekiga video of me, is highly pixellated, and is of low resolution, compared with Skype. The version of Skype that I have installed, is 2.2.0.35-1, which I believe (but may be wrong) was in the Debian package repository when I installed Debian 6 on this computer. I assume that the existence of Skype in the Debian package repository, is from before when Microsoft took over Skype. I am aware that both Ekiga and Skype are in versions 4.x, not, but installing Skype from the cuirrent version, on Debian amd64, appears to now be too complicated. And, there is a weiord thing on the Skype web site - it shows that Skype is available for Debian, only for Debian 7 multiarch (?) which has not yet been released, and, it takes a bit of digging around on the Skype web site, to find the references to installing Skype on Debian 6. Anyway, the latest version of Ekiga that shows in the Debian package repository, for Debian 6, is the Ekiga v 3.2.7-2, that I mentioned above as being installed on this computer, which is running Debian 6.0.x amd64, on an Intel I3 CPU. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list Yes! It got through... :) I have just tried, using my version of Ekiga, to call the poster of the original message in the thread, to find what would happen. I got User is not available. Oh, well... I tried. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Polaris wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:08:57 From: Polaris pola...@vfemail.net Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org To: Ekiga mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today I was on the other end of this test. We first assumed that freezing up and loop back video problems were due to bugs in the 4.0 ver of Ekiga. If the 3.2 ver is considered more buggy than 4.0 than would someone with 4.0 installed like to give me a call so I could test my new camera properly? Thanks, sip:tr...@ekiga.net On 2/15/2013 11:16 PM, Genghis Khan wrote: Hello, On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST) el_gallo_azul el_gallo_a...@yahoo.com wrote: I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test. 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help. Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask? As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues which make Ekiga to freeze. 2. We were able to converse. 3. I was only able to see video of myself, and he was only able to see video of himself. Maybe you did not had the same video codec activated? 4. We had a brief discussion regarding the SIP protocol.Is there more than one SIP protocol? ie. Is it possible that different software uses different protocol/s, or part thereof? For example, I believe Empathy has 'some SIP support'. Do Ekiga and Empathy not talk to each other at all? a. It is possible to use different software that use same protocol. However, there may be an issue of case-problem which would result in clients that intended to be communicating with each other to not communicate. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:21:27 -0800 Justin Karneges jus...@affinix.com wrote: I think the right answer is that codec names are meant to be compared in a case-sensitive way, and the correct name of the Speex codec is speex and not SPEEX. Psi therefore uses the wrong codec name completely. This also means that it only ever worked at all with other clients (e.g. Empathy, Pidgin) because they were sending the wrong codec name to Psi. http://lists.affinix.com/pipermail/psi-devel-affinix.com/2012-November/thread.html b. It is also possible to use different software that use different protocol via gateway/bridge of 3rd party (i.e. SIP to land-line; Jingle to land-line; SIP - land-line - Skype). There are available gateways from SIP to Jingle and from Jingle to SIP. There is also Asterisk integration with Skype but I think non of them are available for the public since Microsoft took over http://freeswitch.org/node/325. c. In future, I guess, people will make plugins for Ekiga and other SIP clients that correspond with Skype protocol by reverse-engineered code, which is being censored by Microsoft and various of ISPs by blocking BitTorrent traffic of it https://github.com/skypeopensource http://the-user.org/post/skype-reverse-engineered. 5. I chose Ekiga because it is multi-platform (Linux, Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX). This is necessary at the moment because most people I have been using Skype with use computers with Microsoft or Apple OS. In the long term, I think that people should be able to choose any SIP software they like, and they should be able to talk to each other. I think just like you :-) Ekiga is not yet available for MacOS, MacOS testers are needed. Linphone and QuteCom (formerly known as WengoPhone), for example, do work under all three platforms. Greg Flint PO Box 642 Parap NT 0804 Australia Phone +61 (0)8 8945 1725 Mobile +61 (0)428 279 021 Australian Central Standard Time (CST) = GMT + 9.5 sip: el_gallo_a...@ekiga.net sip: 473...@sip.diamondcard.us - VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list I just tried calling the above poster, with my version of Ekiga. I again got User is not available. I think that my SIP address is bret.bu...@ekiga.net . -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
