[Ekiga-list] need documentation of how to get Ekiga working with other programs

[yannick]

Hi,

I've updated the page :
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Wich_programs_work_with_Ekiga_%3F

I still need this to be tested... Please report success.

Changes :
- Found windows messenger and linphone can have text messages with
Ekiga.
- Added XMeeting on Mac OS (audio + video with EKiga as this software
rely on the same libraries). 
- Added Ekiga win32. Added a new colomn "Presence" (but no infos right
now).
- Ordered the list : the most green a software have the more it is on
top. 
- Aesthetic : better green (more readable).

Regards,
Yannick

Le dimanche 29 octobre 2006 à 21:41 +0100, yannick a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Le dimanche 29 octobre 2006 à 12:12 -0800, David M. Kaplan a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Yannick - the page you set up is a great start to the documentation.  A
> > few suggestions: (1) I would add a "setup instructions" or "discussion"
> > column with some empty links already in place so that people who have
> > used Ekiga with that program can add a page with instructions on how to
> > set things up; 
> 
> I wish i could do that, but the "boss" there don't allow any people to
> use the wiki, as the wiki was hacked and the very few people
> administrating (maybe only 1 person : Damien) have other things todo
> (coding mostly), i'm doubt this will happend soon. Help will be greatly
> appraciate on this issue i guess. For now, the best way is to use this
> mailling list or IRC to report success.
> 
> > (2) You might also add a column that indicates the
> > versions of Ekiga and the other program that were tested (or perhaps
> > that belongs in the setup instructions pages); 
> 
> Well... Most of the informations was collected using google based on my
> knowledge of Ekiga. This is mostly theoric... I used ekiga<->ekiga and
> ekiga<->netmeeting. I also get an IM from windows messenger version
> 5.1.0701.
> 
> > and (3) you might want to
> > add "Ekiga for windows" to the "Using Windows" table - I naively thought
> > that everything would work fine with the connection from Ekiga-linux to
> > Ekiga-windows, but I could only get audio working, nothing else.
> 
> You're right. But Ekiga for windows is still in beta, and heavy work are
> currently done on building it. I'll wait a bit for that.
> 
> I've plan to add a "presence" column, as Damien is working on it
> currently.
> 
> > 
> > The obvious thing that one notes from the table is that audio almost
> > always works, but text and video almost never work.  Naively, I would
> > think that text and video would be no more difficult than audio if SIP
> > is used.  Why is this not the case?  Do other programs have the same
> > difficulties (e.g., does video from Gizmo to X-lite work?)?  Is there
> > any way to find out why video doesn't work?
> 
> About text, my guess is other program implement other protocol (mostly
> jabber, which is a wish of the team) or implement variation (extended)
> of the one used in Ekiga (SIP SIMPLE). I don't know the current status
> of it right now. I need reports about it.
> 
> About video, the issue is codecs. Ekiga is a very old timer in VoIP
> (more than 5 years) and was in first place realased with the H261 codec
> which refer to one of the first codec available for VoIP. Since then new
> (better) codecs has appear and most of the current software use H263
> codec only (almost like XVID or DIVX), or use the very new (and heavy
> CPU) H264. Beside that, the Ekiga design is under heavy change to add
> plugin for video codecs wich will greatly improve the choice of video
> codecs in Ekiga adding H263 (and in my best dreams H264 via the x264
> codec). Fact is only products from Microsoft have support for H261...
> 
> About interoperability between other software, I know no one which can
> test this, nor can maintain a wiki page about it...
> 
> > 
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > David
> > 
> > 
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