subject:"Re\: no microphone in skype"

Re: WebRTC - was Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-09 Thread Bret Busby

On 08/12/2014, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/12/2014, kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Andreas Weber ae...@worldwideweber.ch
wrote:
On 2014-12-06 22:31, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Andreas Weber
ae...@worldwideweber.ch
wrote:
On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote:
The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source
code. They're simply not very good at keeping it working with Linux.

I do not understand what you mean here. As per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC , WebRTC is just an API. What is
the equivalent of Skype that uses WebRTC?

Firefox 34 has built-in video calls. It's called Hello. Enabling is
nicely described here if you don't see the icon:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/556102/no-hello-icon-in-firefox-34

Thanks for the info and the link. It is helpful.

However, my iceweasel version is 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1 and Jessie
currently has 31.2.0esr-3. I see that Iceweasel 34 is only in
experimental. I will try your work around when it hits testing.

raju

From what I understand, from what I have found so far, the WebRTC
thing appears to be implemented as a useable medium, in each of Google
Chrome, Mozilla Firefox (v34) and Opera for Android (but, from what I
have found so far, the facility in Opera, is available for only
Android cellphones, and, not for desktop or laptop / notebook
computers, as I have tried without success, to find how to implement
it in Opera v26, running on a laptop / notebook computer.

I think that this Web RTC thing, is something that requires further
investigation (and, trying to find other people with whom to
experiment in terms of trying to connect using the medium, like I did
with Ekiga and Linphone, before I gave up on them as being unworkable)

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Where I refer to Debian 7, below, it is the amd64 version.

The iceweasel that I have installed on Debian 7, apparently does not
include, in the about:config, the variable loop.throttled (see
http://askubuntu.com/questions/556102/no-hello-icon-in-firefox-34 )
and so, appears to be not compatible with WebRTC.

In the version of SeaMonkey, that I have installed on Debian 7, the
same applies (I thought that I should try to do it in SeaMonkey, in
case that would work).

I can not find how to enable WebRTC in Opera, for either Debian Linux,
or for MS Windows 8.x.

I have, however, apparently managed, by following the instructions at
http://askubuntu.com/questions/556102/no-hello-icon-in-firefox-34
to get WebRTC enabled in the version of Firefox, that is installed on
a MS Windows 8.1 system.

Thus, it appears (to me) that WebRTC is available for MS Windows 8.1,
via Firefox, but, not for Debian Linux 7 amd64.

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