Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga as fax carrier

[Yannick <sevmek free fr>]

Le mardi 25 juin 2013 à 13:57 +0800, Bret Busby a écrit :
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Genghis Khan wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:30:38
> > From: Genghis Khan <genghiskhan gmx ca>
> > Reply-To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> > To: ekiga-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga as fax carrier
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:26:07 +0200
> > Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> >
> > > On 21/06/13 18:01, geo cherchetout wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I can send faxes using Ekiga. :-) It is in french, sorry, but I know
> > > > many people here can read it:
> > > >
> > > > http://cherchetout.pagesperso-orange.fr/FaxOverVoIP.html
> > >
> > > Interesting... I added some words about it at
> > > http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Manual#Introduction, thank you!
> >
> > It sounds important. May you or any other french speaker please
> > translate this document?
>
> I think that Google has a facility for translation between languages - 
> something like "translate this page".

In one hand, this seems a fun way to hack a bit of hardware to get the
fax feature. In the other hand, the Opal stack of ekiga has support for
fax and some software hacking could provide full software support for
fax in Ekiga.

Btw, thank you for this tutorial.

Ref. http://www.opalvoip.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.FaxSupport

In the table "Connecting a fax to the internet" provided in the link
above, the use case here seems to be raw PCM/Audio RTP + connecting an
hardware fax to the audio output of the PC and the serial port.