Hi Team

I have noticed  that the Linux release of Wireshark prepared for Debian or 
Ubuntu does not contain the ability to playback the  G.729 Codec. At this point 
in time the current status is:

Can analyse the G.711A and G.711U Calls
Can play back the G.711A and G.711U Calls
Can analyse the G.729 codec
Cannot play back the G.729 codec

I engaged with Wireshark and they indicated that the following needs to be 
added to your Wireshark packaging for this to work

  *   bcg729

More and more clients are trying to save on bandwidth by using the G.729 Codec. 
Since this is not available for Linux users it makes live difficult to anlyse 
all criteria on a G.729 call


I have tried the release on Ubuntu and Linux Mint as well, same issue

3.2.3 (Git v3.2.3 packaged as 3.2.3-1)

Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.12.8, with libpcap, with POSIX capabilities 
(Linux), with libnl 3, with GLib 2.64.2, with zlib 1.2.11, with SMI 0.4.8, with 
c-ares 1.15.0, with Lua 5.2.4, with GnuTLS 3.6.13 and PKCS #11 support, with 
Gcrypt 1.8.5, with MIT Kerberos, with MaxMind DB resolver, with nghttp2 1.40.0, 
with brotli, with LZ4, with Zstandard, with Snappy, with libxml2 2.9.10, with 
QtMultimedia, without automatic updates, with SpeexDSP (using system library), 
with SBC, with SpanDSP, without bcg729.

Running on Linux 5.4.0-52-generic, with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 
2.20GHz (with SSE4.2), with 7844 MB of physical memory, with locale 
en_ZA.UTF-8, with light display mode, without HiDPI, with libpcap version 1.9.1 
(with TPACKET_V3), with GnuTLS 3.6.13, with Gcrypt 1.8.5, with brotli 1.0.7, 
with zlib 1.2.11, binary plugins supported (18 loaded).

Built using gcc 9.3.0.


This functionality is already part of the Windows version of Wireshark since 
release 2.5

Kind Regards

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