Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga test today

["Genghis Khan" <genghiskhan gmx ca>]

Hello,

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:00 -0800 (PST)
el_gallo_azul <el_gallo_azul yahoo com> wrote:

> I just did a test using Ekiga with another noobie Ekiga user. He used
> Ekiga 4.0 for Windows, and I used Ekiga 3.2.6 for Linux for the test.
>
> 1. I would like to carry out another test with another user of Ekiga
> 3.2.6. Please respond to me directly if you can help.

Why do you want to use 3.2.6, if I may ask?
As far as I recall, 3.2.6 or 3.2.7 have bad connectivity issues
which make Ekiga to freeze.

> 2. We were able to converse.
>
> 3. I was only able to see video of myself, and he was only able to
> see video of himself.

Maybe you did not had the same video codec activated?

> 4. We had a brief discussion regarding the SIP protocol.Is there more
> than one SIP protocol? ie. Is it possible that different software
> uses different protocol/s, or part thereof? For example, I believe
> Empathy has 'some SIP support'. Do Ekiga and Empathy not talk to each
> other at all?

a. It is possible to use different software that use same protocol.
However, there may be an issue of case-problem which would result in
clients that intended to be communicating with each other to not
communicate.

On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:21:27 -0800
Justin Karneges <justin affinix com> wrote:

> I think the right answer is that codec names are meant to be
> compared in a case-sensitive way, and the correct name of the Speex
> codec is "speex" and not "SPEEX". Psi therefore uses the wrong codec
> name completely. This also means that it only ever worked at all with
> other clients (e.g. Empathy, Pidgin) because they were sending the
> wrong codec name to Psi.

http://lists.affinix.com/pipermail/psi-devel-affinix.com/2012-November/thread.html

b. It is also possible to use different software that use different
protocol via gateway/bridge of 3rd party (i.e. SIP to land-line; Jingle
to land-line; SIP <-> land-line <-> Skype).
There are available gateways from SIP to Jingle and from Jingle to SIP.
There is also Asterisk integration with Skype but I think non of them
are available for the public since Microsoft took over
<http://freeswitch.org/node/325>.

c. In future, I guess, people will make plugins for Ekiga and other SIP
clients that correspond with Skype protocol by reverse-engineered code,
which is being censored by Microsoft and various of ISPs by blocking
BitTorrent traffic of it <https://github.com/skypeopensource>
<http://the-user.org/post/skype-reverse-engineered>.

> 5. I chose Ekiga because it is multi-platform (Linux, Microsoft
> Windows, Apple OSX). This is necessary at the moment because most
> people I have been using Skype with use computers with Microsoft or
> Apple OS. In the long term, I think that people should be able to
> choose any SIP software they like, and they should be able to talk to
> each other.

I think just like you :-)

Ekiga is not yet available for MacOS, MacOS testers are needed.
Linphone and QuteCom (formerly known as WengoPhone), for
example, do work under all three platforms.

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