Re: GNOME Chat and the future of instant messaging in gnome

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 09:38 +0100, Daniel Pocock a écrit :

> >     > Note: Do not forget another alternative being updated, as Ekiga.
> >     > http://blog.ekiga.net/?p=201
> >
> >     Yes.  +1 Ekiga
> >
> >
> > Ekiga seems like a good alternative besides upgrading involves not only
> > a new interface, also several changes inside the hood.
> > I wish that supports HD video call.
>
>
> Has Ekiga added support for NAT traversal using ICE and TURN though?
> Any softphone without that tends to have limited usefulness as it will
> sometimes have problems with one-way audio and ghost calls and that
> irritates people a lot.

Unfortunately not, due to the lack of manpower on the project.

However :

- ICE does not cover all cases and will fail too

- TURN implies relaying the trafic, which we will do at the Ekiga.net level to mitigate the problem. 

We will try providing a far-end NAT traversal approach that will work 100% of the time.

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Damien SANDRAS

Ekiga Project
http://www.ekiga.org