Ekiga needs Codec G.711, G.726 and G.729 for sparvoip.de (voipbuster.com)

[Stephan]

Binary package hint: ekiga

Ekiga has a bad quality without codecs G.711 (64 kbps) or G.726 (32 kbps) for a sparvoip.de account. Sparvoip.de is the same software as Voipbuster.com.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 30 20:07:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
Package: ekiga 2.0.3-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: ekiga
ProcCwd: /home/stmh
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=/home/stmh/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ekiga
Uname: Linux stmh-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

Anyway it seems Ubuntu doesn't ship all Codecs that Ekiga supports? At least on the screenshots on the ekiga site, more codecs are shown than available on my system. Can a dev please comment on that?

[Jeremy Visser (jeremy-visser)]

I can't use iiNetPhone with Ekiga, as it only supports these restricted codecs.

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

In how far are they "restricted"? Can *please* somebody who actually knows about the issue comment?

[Stephen Cook (siti)]

Are you able to test if this problem occurs in the latest ekiga?

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

I'm now using the latest Ekiga (2.0.9) from the Ekiga website. There I have the following codecs:

Speex, iLBC, GSM, MS-GSM, PCMU, PCMA, G726-16k, G721, LPC

*not* available are G711 and G729

[Yannick Defais (sevmek)]

Hi,

G.711=PCMA or PCMU

G729 has patents on it, thus isn't in Ekiga.

Regards,
Yannick

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

In the build for Gutsy, PCMA/PCMU (=G.711) and G726 are present, and it seems G729 won't ever be. So this is as fixed as it will ever be and can be closed i guess.