video call: doesnt display video from other caller in ring-kde

[star-buck]

[star-buck]

same ticket as this: #38

[Elv13]

I will need the logs for this one. Please send them by email or remove personal info first. It unsurprisingly works on my side. There is a metric tons of reason why this can happen. There is an equivalent metric tons of ways to fix those individual issues. ICE/STUN/TURN/UPnP/SIPS/x509/TLS based P2P is a very complex set of RFC with a large sets of obscure options and common implementation mistakes. Remember that most of this is done by the router, not GNU Ring.

1. • Does the peer see his/her own preview (aka: is the camera working at all)
2. • Does one of the peer use 3G or LTE data (in which case a provider might deliberately mess with the traffic to prevent VoIP apps from being reliable. My providers does that, so do most other)?
3. • Are the 2 peers on the same LAN or is it routed?
4. • What are the routers on both end?
5. • Does going in the setting and disabling UPnP on both side changes anything?
6. • Does it work with wired internet?

(there is 20 more things like that, but the logs will be enough to know)

This is usually a network issue like (#20) or UDP pack loss during the critical media handshake step. It is also a PITA to debug and fix from the clients point of view.

Anyway, it has to be fixed otherwise GNU Ring is useless.

[star-buck]

Both users (me and ronald) are using ring-kde appimage over wired internet, and it was working last year fine. Of course we both see our own small video in the corner.

[star-buck]

ring gnome works perfectly fine both ways on the same machine, so it can only be ring-kde appimage at fault:

[Elv13]

update on this one:

• It worked until ~1 month ago, it sitll works /sometime/
• Nothing changed in Ring-KDE side
• It still works in the client/server mode
• Reverting to the older ring-kde commits changes nothing
• Reverting to the older daemon changes nothing
• Reverting all new version of all dependencies one by one until it works again (ongoing)