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skottish

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How do I get Ekiga to see ossv4? [DONE]

Ekiga claims that it has oss support, but I can't figure it out. I searched the configure files from both opal and ekiga, and rebuild both. Ekiga simply will not see anything oss. Any ideas?

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-20 05:32:33)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: How do I get Ekiga to see ossv4? [DONE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga

Alsa and LEGACY OSS support.

skottish

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Re: How do I get Ekiga to see ossv4? [DONE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga

Alsa and LEGACY OSS support.

Holy cow! You broke out the Wikipedia card. Nice.

Well, that sucks monkey butts. I guess trying to get linphone to work is my next best option. Thanks jacko.

blasse

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Re: How do I get Ekiga to see ossv4? [DONE]

Isn't ossv4 backward compatible with oss API?

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skottish

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Re: How do I get Ekiga to see ossv4? [DONE]

Isn't ossv4 backward compatible with oss API?

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be. I went as far as to modify the source code of ptlib in order for it to link to libOSSlib.so, and it did nothing. It's really a pain. I've always had bad luck with voip phones in Linux with the exception of Skype. I'm not going to support a huge 32 bit set up anymore, so my options aren't so good.

--EDIT--

I marked this done because OSS is too underdeveloped at the moment. It definitely sounds better than ALSA, no question there. But, trying to get things like USB microphones working is a major hassle. Hopefully either OSS won't die, or more work will go into getting ALSA's sound quality better.

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-20 05:34:37)