On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 01:41, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most >> important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed >> Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound >> quality was very choppy and unusable. They are both on Windows. >> >> Is there an better softphone? Is there a better sip address service >> than ekiga.net? Is there a better softphone for Windows than Ekiga? >> > Ekiga has a nasty reputation of generally being non functional. I > couldn't make it work on my system, either. I've sampled a handful of > SIP softphones and stopped my attention to two: Linphone [1] and Jitsi > [2], both cross-platform. > > Linphone is a mature application with robust sound, and good video (if > you follow the FAQ). On the downside the UI design is a bit rusty and > would need some love and attention, but nothing hopelessly bad. Jitsi > is different. It is still in active, pre-release development, although > many report using it in production mode and that it is stable > (personally I'm still having some hitches with the audio, but you > should try on your system). The upside of Jitsi is a clean and > intuitive interface (a bit similar to Skype on Linux), and long list > of fancy features, including support for many protocols > (Pidgin-style), audio, video, conferencing, encryption, desktop > sharing, call recording, etc. Both apps are open-source with > commercial support available. > > You should try both and see which better fits your needs. If you're > looking for more alternatives, try this [3] [4]. Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://alternativeto.net/software/linphone/ > [2] http://alternativeto.net/software/sip-communicator/ > [3] http://alternativeto.net/software/skype/ > [4] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/#skypereplacement >
Thanks, I'll research those this evening. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimdhxe7elu6xo7rizf2s509gi-bgt-gz0ch7...@mail.gmail.com
