[JDEV] voice over jabber

Thomas Muldowney temas at box5.net
Tue Nov 12 19:12:20 CST 2002


True, I always forget about that.  Even gnomemeeting registers that on
my GNOME destkop.

--temas


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:58:38AM +0100, Sebastiaan 'CBAS' Deckers wrote:
> The easiest solution is sending a "callto:" URL in a jabber:iq:oob 
> packet.  This is already done by several clients (RhymBox, Rival and 
> TipicIM ... maybe others that I do not know of).
> Don't reinvent more wheels than you have to.
> 
> --
> Sebastiaan Deckers
> 
> 
> Brian McConnell wrote:
> >My two cents on voice over IP.
> >
> >I think it is not worth the effort to integrate voice capabilities directly
> >into Jabber. There are a number of open source IP telephony efforts already
> >underway. A better use of time is to figure out how to link to these
> >services within Jabber clients.
> >
> >The issues associated with voice over IP are not trivial because of the
> >quality of service requirements for good voice communication. You must deal
> >with: echo cancellation, latency due to sound subsystem in the PC, latency
> >due to vocoders, latency due to network, dealing with competition from
> >bursty network traffic, etc. Even with all of the work that has been done
> >for the past five years, VoIP is still not completely reliable.
> >
> >Brian McConnell
> 
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