Re: [Ekiga-list] newbie
On 17/09/2019, selin...@mathstat.dal.ca wrote: > Hi, > > this is a newbie question. I am trying to install Ekiga on an Ubuntu > 19.04 system. I ran into several problems: > > * there doesn't seem to be an ekiga package in Ubuntu 19.04. At any > rate, "apt install ekiga" said there was no such package. > > * I downloaded the sources. "configure" complained about a missing > Boost library, so I installed it with "apt install libboost-dev". > Now I get the following: > > checking for boostlib >= 1.34... yes > checking whether the Boost::Signals library is available... yes > configure: error: Could not find a version of the library! > > Since the previous two answers were "yes", I am not sure what is > missing on the last line, nor how to install it. I'm not sure what > "the library" is, if it is not "boostlib >= 1.34" or > "Boost::Signals". > > Do you have some up-to-date installation instructions? I did check > the wiki at > "http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Installing_Ekiga_on_Linux";, but it > hasn't been updated since 2013 (the Ubuntu instructions date to 2011). > > Or if this project is dead, is there a replacement that you can > recommend? > > Thanks, -- Peter > Hello. I believe that you are better not trying to install Ekiga, especcially as a new user. No new development is being done, and, Ekiga is no longer fully supported, insofar as I am aware. Whilst some people have an ideological objection to it, because it is now owned and operated by Microsoft, and, also, its functionality has been progressively reduced, over the years, since Microsoft took it over, I recommend trying Skype, which is available for Ubuntu Linux, of which, I currently run UbuntuMATE 16.04 (as my preferred OS) and 18.04; both are LTS versions. -- 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] Video quality issue
On 29/03/2019, jpsi...@isac.gov.in wrote: > Any pointer will be helpful regarding below mentioned issue. > > Dear All, > >> >> I am trying Video conferencing between Windows 10 desktop PC with >> Sony HD IPELA video conferencing system. The video at Sony end is >> getting stuck briefly and then again it resumes ( may be buffering >> or jitters) e.g. for every 10 second video 4-5 seconds it is stuck. >> PC end video is OK. Audio is Ok at both end. Sony video conferencing >> system has large monitor. Please suggest any solution. >> >> >> Thanks & Regards >> JP Singh >> >> - > -- > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > -- > > Hello. My understanding is that Ekiga is shut down and dead (see the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch). The only video calling software that I have, in the last several years, been able to get working, has been skype, but, after Microsoft took it over they did their Microsoft thing, and wrecked skype. I am not aware of any other working video calling software, so I suggest that you try skype, and find whether skype is still functional as video calling software. -- 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.net discontinued
On 02/12/2018, Damien Sandras wrote: > Hi all, > > Due to the lack of time, and to the last outages, I have taken the > decision to discontinue EKIGA.NET before the end of the year. > > Thank you for your support during all those years. > > It has been a pleasure! > -- > > > > > > > > Damien SANDRAS > > > > Ekiga Project > > http://www.ekiga.org > > > > Hello. I am wondering whether, given that Ekiga is said to be open source, rather than, as its owner, simply shutting it down, it would not be more appropriate and consistent with the (perceived) nature of open source,, to seek a new group of people, to take it on, for the sake of its continuance. More and more good Linux software, has been abandoned/discontinued, and, with MS apparently determined to progressively eliminate skype (MS has been p[rogressively hobbling skype, since MS bought it out), a developing technology in IT - the means od making video calls, amongst other uses, is being eliminated. It is a bit like, if Alexander Bell had decided that he had had enough of trying to develop telephony, and said "Stuff it - I've had enough - I am going to put it all into boxes and bury it.", rather than passing it on to others to continue the development. Imagine what the world would be like, if we had not had telephony. Imagine what the wotld could be like, if we would have video calls and videoconferencing, as commonplace, as telephony has been. Here in Australia, members of the federal parliament, fly thousands of kilometres, to sit in the parliament (when they can be bothered turning up for "work" - the federal parliament is apparently scheduled to meet, for only ten days, in the next eight months, while its members hibernate (and, hide from each other) ), and, whilst the Australian federal partliament does not want to progress from the stone age, if its members used virtual attendance, through videoconferencing, it could save the country a fortune, and, show that Australia is not really such a stupid and backward country, that it appears to be (we have a federal government, that is obsessed with burning as much cpoall as possible, as it is worried about the increasing chill in the air). So, while MS is doing as much as it can, to obstruct communications, with its progressive hobbling of skype, if Ekiga could be turned into a community project, and, thence, continue to be developed and maintained, instead of being abandoned, like so much other Linux software, we could have hope, that communications technology will continue to advance, instead of being abandoned and left in unusable pieces on the side of the road.. So, rather than simply abandoning Ekiga, I ask whether it could be offered as a community project, so as to provide for its continued development, maintenance, and, support, rather than simply abandoning it. -- 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
