Comment 117 for bug 388898

(In reply to comment #20)
> 1) Do they messages above imply that Empathy should work with the package
> versions I have?

Yes

> 2) When I try to make a voice call to somebody running the Google Talk client
> on Windows, the connection is made, but there is no sound on either end. After
> a few seconds, Empathy freezes and needs to be killed by force. Could this
> symptom be explained based on the missing/wrong package discussion above?
> Should I file a separate bug report for this?
> [Note: Empathy works very well if the other person calls me.]

Yes, can you attach gdb to empathy when its frozen and do "thread apply all bt" and paste the result in that new bug.. Also please CC me on that bug.

> 3) This page
> http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#head-0cf7b08b5a6dd38484cb692f72da4475997aa008
> says that the gstreamer-plugins-bad package is required on Fedora 11 and I must
> install it by hand. Is this still true?

No, page updated.

> 4) The same page also says I need gstreamer-ffmpeg package. Is that true? Is
> that only for Video, or do I need it anyway? What is the recommended way of
> getting it?

You only need gst-ffmpeg if you want to make video calls with clients using non-free codecs, like the Nokia N8x0 tablets.