It is a bug-fixing release since the previous unstable release (1 month ago). This is the third unstable release of the upcoming 3.4 version of Ekiga. The "H264 and H263+ codecs, welcome back" release Feel free to reach me at dsandras _AT_ ! If you are a coder and want to develop on Ekiga, if you are a graphical designer, if you are a Drupal expert, if you like writing documentation, if you are a PHP developer and want to work on. Our team is relatively small and there are many areas where we are not competent: website design is one of them.
That means that progress on the project is slow, especially when you want to be ambitious. Sometimes you have much spare time, sometimes you don't have any spare time for a few weeks. On the contrary of many projects, Ekiga has always been developed during my spare time with a few contributors working in their spare time too. ).Īs we do not have any ICE implementation yet, and as NAT is still a problem, we would like to implement Far End NAT Traversal on the new platform.Īll of this should come with a brand new modern look for all websites related to Ekiga and. But we also need to add support for the new Ekiga features (TCP support, the upcoming TLS support. First, there are a few shortcomings that must be fixed with the platform: users should be able to delete their SIP accounts, to modify their e-mail and password preferences, passwords should not be sent in cleartext (ouch!).
Jitsi voip client upgrade#
We would also like to upgrade before releasing Ekiga 5.0. New codecs have been added, and new features are still being added regularly (I would like to complete TLS and SRTP support before the release as well as MSRP chat). The user interface is completely new and is now using cutting-edge technologies like GTK+3 or even Clutter to display video. Things are getting simplified to attract new contributors (I am now 15 years older than when I started coding on Ekiga).
Jitsi voip client code#
Most of the code has been reorganized, some parts have been completely rewritten. With the upcoming 5.0 release, we were very ambitious. As a SIP softphone, it can completely replace hardware SIP IP phones and many people are using it as such. The purpose of Ekiga has always been to be a mix between a simple chat application and a professional IP Telephony tool for the GNU/Linux destop. Few people know that alternatives exist, and even less people know that using standard tools allows doing voice over IP, videoconferencing but also IP Telephony. However, proprietary programs using closed communication protocols are dominating the market.
Nowadays, everyone knows about voice over IP and videoconferencing.
Generally speaking, the technology was not ready yet but Ekiga was already kicking! General performance could also be an issue, especially when most efficient codecs were closed source.
Jitsi voip client drivers#
Most webcam drivers were buggy, ALSA had not been released yet and full-duplex audio was something difficult to achieve. The GNU/Linux desktop was at its infancy, and let's not speak about multimedia capabilities. In 2001, voice over IP, IP Telephony, and videoconferencing were not widespread technologies as they are now. Ekiga was first released back in 2001 under the GnomeMeeting name, as a graduation thesis.
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