You have x264 installed from rpmfusion. They are (I think) based somewhere
where software patents aren't valid, so they are free to include patented
codecs that fedora can't. You have linphone installed from fedora. When fedora
compiled linphone they didn't enable the x264 support because they don't want
to be sued for patent infringement. Rpmfusion don't seem to have a linphone
package, so you need to compile your own, or find a precompiled one somewhere
else.
If you use yum and rpmbuild it should sort most of the dependencies out for
you. It's a while since I've done it - mainly a gentoo user now - but the
instructions on the web weren't too hard to follow. You would need to change
the config options in the spec file to enable the video codecs. A quick search
turned up these two, but a quick search should find more.
http://perso.b2b2c.ca/sarrazip/dev/rpm-building-crash-course.html
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/04/05/how-to-build-rpm-packages-on-fedora/
On Monday 06 December 2010, Jonas Kellens wrote:
Hello,
address@hidden linphone-3.3.2]# yum info x264
Name : x264
Arch : i686
Version : 0.0.0
Release : 0.27.20091109git3daa02e.fc12
Size : 520 k
Repo : installed
From repo : rpmfusion-free-updates
Summary : H264/AVC video streams encoder
URL : http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html
License : GPLv2+
Description : x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video
streams, written from
: scratch.
: This package contains the frontend.
So I do not have these codecs ??
When using Ekiga, I have H261 codec (but I need H263 or H264)
Jonas.
On 12/06/2010 08:36 PM, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Fedora generally don't include patented codecs such as h264 as a matter
of policy. You usually have to go to a non-fedora repo like rpmfusion
for those codecs. Check which repo your x264 package came from - I bet
it's rpmfusion or some other repo, not fedora. Blame laws on software
patents for this situation.
The fedora-packaged linphone in F12 is rather old (2.1.1) and doesn't
appear to have any video codecs installed, probably due to the patent
policy. Rpmfusion don't appear to have it packaged, so the alternatives
are to build it yourself or find some other precompiled version.
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