The empathy RPM are missing some core run-time dependencies. The packages: gstreamer-plugins-farsight telepathy-stream-engine Needs to be installed for the VOIP features to work (including their sub-dependencies). This is a problem with the current FC9 prerelease.
Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix this up tonight after class; or someone can add these two deps before then if so desired. :)
I don't believe the version of stream-engine shipping w/ F9 meets the minimum requirement for empathy. And since we are in feature freeze for F9, it will be pushed as an update after our release. Also, I don't think it make sense to add a hard-dep to empathy, since this can be a run-time dep.
Brian, maybe it would be best then to move the VoIP-related files from the main package into a -voip subpackage; then that subpackage can have these dependencies in addition to the main package of the same EVR.
Well regarding making things a hard dependency or not. I know that one early and very frequent complaint against GStreamer applications like Totem and Rhythmbox was that 'nothing' worked without installing 'random' other gstreamer-plugins packages. I think this is a similar case. And while part of is its empathy's fault, the problem is that you get zero feedback when you try to connect over VoIP with empathy when these packages are not installed. So unless you hardcode the dependency there is no solution other than forum crawling and googling for figuring out what is missing and needs to be installed. I would also argue that the people who do install empathy at this point in time probably do it due to wanting Voip as it don't really offers any chatting advantages over Pidgin etc.
Been testing and getting help from Rob McQueen today and finally I got VoIP with telepathy working on my system. In the end I had to upgrade quite a few packages compared to what is in FC9 currently: farsight-0.1.27 telepathy-gabble-0.7.3 telepathy-glib-0.7.6 telepathy-stream-engine-0.5.2 Also Rob pointed out that gstreamer-plugins-farsight should probably be a requirement for the farsight RPM and not the empathy one. I also had to add a small patch to telepathy-gabble. Attaching that here. Finally there is a bug in the GStreamer speex plugins which has a patch, I will try to get that merged upstream.
Created attachment 304320 [details] Tiny patch for telepathy-gabble. %patch0 -p0 merge it fine.
Speex patch is currently in this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465146
Christian, thanks for the leg work you did on this. Peter, I'm going to assign this bug to me, since I was planning to update the tp requirements in F9 next week.
Sounds like a good plan, then. Let me know once you've got the TP stuff bumped and I can add the dependencies in Empathy (or you can do so directly if you'd like). Thanks, Brian!
I'll go ahead and do the empathy bit also, since I want these all to be pushed to bodhi at the same time.
Hi Brian, Just thought I should mention that Simon did a new release of telepathy-gabble yesterday when I mentioned this bug, so we now have: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-gabble/telepathy-gabble-0.7.4.tar.gz Updating to this version means the patch attached to this bugzilla entry is no longer needed as it is in the mainline. I have added another patch though, a farsight patch. This patch (together with the GStreamer speex fixes) will make sure one do not sound like Dart Vader when talking using empathy.
Created attachment 304373 [details] Help fix speex voip to not sound like dart vader
Ok, I've built new version of telepathy-glib, tp-gabble, farsight, gst-farsight, tp-stream-engine, and empathy. The only thing left is to patch gst-plugins-good, which I'll do on Monday after touching base with Bastien. Once that is done, I'll add them all to Bodhi (so they're pushed at the same time). Here's links to the builds for those interested: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47843 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47846 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47893 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47850 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47989 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=47993
I am not able to do voip with them. When I initiate the call with empathy(linux) to gtalk(windows), call is terminated as soon as I accept it on the windows. And when I initiate it from windows to linux, it just shows the ringing status on call window. On ubuntu, hardy. I am able to do voip with windows box.
telepathy-glib-0.7.6-1.fc9,gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.7-1.fc9,farsight-0.1.27-2.fc9,telepathy-stream-engine-0.5.2-1.fc9,telepathy-gabble-0.7.4-1.fc9,empathy-0.23.1-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
farsight-0.1.27-2.fc9, telepathy-glib-0.7.6-1.fc9, telepathy-stream-engine-0.5.2-1.fc9, gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.7-1.fc9, telepathy-gabble-0.7.4-1.fc9, empathy-0.23.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update farsight telepathy-glib telepathy-stream-engine gstreamer-plugins-farsight telepathy-gabble empathy'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3639
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
farsight-0.1.27-2.fc9, telepathy-glib-0.7.6-1.fc9, telepathy-stream-engine-0.5.2-1.fc9, gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.7-1.fc9, telepathy-gabble-0.7.4-1.fc9, empathy-0.23.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Ok, tested again now with updated packages. There are still a few remaining issues. First of all the gstreamer-plugins-farsight package links against jrtplib, which actually makes it not work. This package needs to be built with '--disable-jrtlib', I will work to make that the default for the next release. The other problem is as mentioned above that the Speex RTP support in current GStreamer is broken. The next gst-plugins-good (which should be 0.10.9) should have the needed speex RTP fixes. The issue with speex only triggers when speex is negotiated as the protocol though.
As a workaround: As long as it's known that speex doesn't work on fedora you can disable it in farsight by editting /etc/farsight/gstcodecs.conf and setting id=-1 for speex. So change what looks in the default config something like: [audio/speex] clock-rate=16000 to [audio/speex] id=-1 This will make farsight ignore speex as a codec