First message in this forum, so hi to all.

Well, I'm tryng to install Telepathy on my KDE 5/Plasma 5/KF 5/whatever setup, and I see it tries to install several Gstreamer related packages. I use VLC as sound backend, which seems to be the preferred, and my distro -Gentoo- uses as default, so I don't want to install things I don't really need. The "culprit" is Farstream, which depends on Gstreamer. If I install KTP without the farstream tag, said dependencies disappear, but I guess I will not can use audio nor video conference, will I? Is there any way to force Farstream to use VLC and have a fully functional installation?


Cheers.

GStreamer is just being used as a multimedia processing library by telepathy and ktp-call-ui. They should work with whatever KDE backend you're using, and you can set your preferred backend iin the multimedia settings

detrout wrote:GStreamer is just being used as a multimedia processing library by telepathy and ktp-call-ui. They should work with whatever KDE backend you're using, and you can set your preferred backend iin the multimedia settings

I have installed it without the "farstream" compilation flag, and it seems to "work" but since I've only configured a Telegram account, and the Telegram plugin is at a very early stage -no multimedia at all, not even sending/receiving pictures- I haven't could test if conferences work; I guess they don't for it seems Farstream is unprescindible.
Well, I suppose KTP or PTP, or how it be called now, still needs some work.
Thanks for your help anyway.

Well without the fartsream flag what little KDE Telepathy multimedia support exists wont work at all. As far as I know only SIP and XMPP/Jingle have any hope for working, and that would require ktp-call-ui from git.

detrout wrote:Well without the fartsream flag what little KDE Telepathy multimedia support exists wont work at all. As far as I know only SIP and XMPP/Jingle have any hope for working, and that would require ktp-call-ui from git.

Oh, I thought it was only needed for conferencing ( http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Farstream/ ). So, it seems we need Gstreamer, yes or yes, if we want fully functional chatting in KDE Telepathy.
Thanks again.