On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:20:50 +0200 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon,09.Nov.09, 11:04:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype > > > was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've > > > tried? What comes close? > > > > There are a number of FLOSS software phone applications. > > Could you please point me to one that: > > - works on Windows, OS X and, of course, GNU/Linux > - supports webcam > - can traverse NATs I've had much trouble with all Linux VoIP clients that I've tried. My test for usability is fairly simple: successfully make a call to the Ekiga echo test number (sip:5...@ekiga.net), and hear the recorded audio and get the echoed A/V. Currently, Ekiga (the client) works, but I could not get any other client to do so. [I'm behind NAT.] Many don't connect, giving more or less (generally less) cryptic explanations as to why, and one (Linphone, IIRC) claims that it has connected, but doesn't show any A/V. Googling shows that many clients have trouble with the Ekiga.net server's implementation of some protocol, but I've also tried registering with iptel.org; while some clients do better with it, at least allowing me to successfully register, which they wouldn't do with Ekiga.net, I still have yet to successfully make a call with anything but Ekiga. It addition to SIP, I also tried the A/V functionality of XMPP. The only client that I could find that claims to currently support A/V over XMPP is Pidgin; I tried it, but it reproducibly segfaults whenever I send or receive a call: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10697 VoIP on linux seems to currently be pretty badly broken / unimplemented. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
