TheBonsai's Blog » Ekiga http://www.thebonsai.net About the days and nights of TheBonsai Thu, 13 May 2010 08:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 When developers discuss… http://www.thebonsai.net/2008/12/02/when-developers-discuss/ http://www.thebonsai.net/2008/12/02/when-developers-discuss/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:45 +0000 TheBonsai http://www.thebonsai.net/?p=89 Ha, just some junk today. Just look at this roaring IRC discussion:

<damien> I should mail Daniel to ask him what he thinks about that
<TheBonsai> daniel?
<TheBonsai> *scratches beard*
<Snark> *scratches head*
<damien> constantin mierla
<damien> from sip-router
<TheBonsai> aah
<Snark> ahh

And yes, we do that every day.

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Damien Sandras has released the Version 3.0 of his Ekiga software phone.

This is a major release, most of the code has been rewritten. Many changes are not visible because they are in internal code. See the feature list (major new features are in bold-italic font):

SIP Features Version 3.0.0

  • SIP compliant
  • Registrar support
  • Possibility to simultaneously register to several accounts
  • Proxy support
  • Outbound Proxy support
  • Call Hold
  • Call Transfer
  • Call Forwarding on no answer, on busy, always
  • Configurable port ranges
  • Instant Messaging
  • RFC2833 DTMFs support
  • Message Waiting Indications Support
  • ENUM support
  • Transparent NAT Support using STUN
  • SIP re-INVITE support
  • SIP/SIMPLE Presence support
  • Line Monitoring
  • Extended presence publishing
  • Full SIP capabilities exchange for codec
  • SIP INFO DTMF support
  • Ability to simultaneously handle several network interfaces

H.323 Features Version 3.0.0

  • H.323v4 Compliant
  • H.245 Tunneling and Fast Start
  • Gatekeeper (RAS) Support
  • H.235 Annex D. Support
  • Gateway/Proxy Support
  • H.450.1 Call Hold
  • H.450.2 Call Transfer
  • H.450.3 Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always
  • Configurable Port Ranges
  • RFC2833, Q.931, and Inband DTMF support
  • ENUM support
  • Transparent NAT support using STUN

Codecs Features Version 3.0.0

  • iLBC, GSM-06.10, MS-GSM, G.711-Alaw, G.711-uLaw, G.726, G.721 and Speex audio codecs
  • H.261 support
  • Dynamic Jitter Buffer
  • Dynamic threshold algorithm for Silence Detection
  • Echo Cancellation
  • Wideband Codec Support
  • H.263+ support
  • H.264 support
  • THEORA support
  • MPEG4 support
  • Framerate up to 30 FPS
  • Resolutions up to 704×576

General Features Version 3.0.0

  • Integration with Novell Evolution
  • LDAP Support
  • Advanced Address Book
  • Calls History
  • Dialpad
  • Rendez-Vous support
  • In call Instant-Apply of ettings
  • Auto Answer and Do Not Disturb Modes
  • GConf and external Configuration
  • Possibility for administrators to block some settings
  • OSS and ALSA compatible soundcards support
  • Video4Linux, Video4Linux 2 and Firewire Cameras support
  • Devices Auto-Detection
  • Configurable sound events
  • Configuration Assistant
  • Manual
  • HIG compliant GUI
  • KDE and GNOME compatibility
  • Translated into many languages
  • Buddy List
  • Status support
  • Devices hotplug
  • Network interfaces hotplug
  • Accelerated full screen video conferencing

Developer Features Version 3.0.0

  • Ekiga Engine, independant of the GUI, reusable in other projects

Ekiga.Net SIP VoIP Service

Due to the new presence support of Ekiga, the free SIP service Ekiga.Net will also be tuned a bit. It gets a new router software and a new webinterface.

Since there are many things to take care of, especially the user databases and similar vital things, this won’t happen today or tomorrow.

Why do I advertise Ekiga?

I don’t advertise. It’s a FOSS project I’m involved in my sparetime, so basically I just wrote what others and I did in the last weeks and months.

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Finally I’m back coding for the Ekiga project.

Though I have some trouble interpreting the new code structures and paradigms, it gets better every day. I focus on GTK+ UI coding (in C), which is tricky enough sometimes.

Have a nice week!

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However, I used to contribute some bits of code here and then, nothing mentionable. But it was fun and learning for me, and it hopefully helped the developers a bit.

During the last months (and still running) they’re heading for Ekiga 3 (I lovely call it “Threekiga”, haha…). The internal changes are heavy and will make the main engine relatively flexible and highly extendible. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to even read into the new code structure – I’m not able to code even one small bit and contribute it to Ekiga. That’s very sad, because the developers could need help. It looks like that I’m just here to be in the ChangeLog and the Info-window and doing nothing.

Good news is, the time-situation will get better in the mid of 2008 – but Ekiga 3 will already be released then (I hope!).

Sorry, mainly to Damien and Julien, who did and do a great and a sometimes really hard work. But of course also to all the others of the core team. But in some weeks I’ll start over again.

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