Thanks Jānis and Kevin! That helped a lot, but I guess I have some more reading to do...
Jānis Rukšāns schrieb: > Hi, > > Just one remark about direct peer to peer communication. Ekiga can be > used for peer to peer communication (and other SIP clients should be > as well), one just needs to know the exact contact address (IP and > maybe user) to dial. For example sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or simply > sip:192.168.0.203 . But as the original poster said he would like to > control who is talking to who centrally, that would require some SIP > proxy software, maybe Asterisk can do that. To implement a custom SIP > proxy one would definately require knowledge about how SIP works > (that's quite a bunch of RFCs) and an existing SIP stack. > > On Feb 20, 2008 7:35 PM, Kévin REDON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I stumbled over the Ekiga software when looking for a tool which could >>> help us to run these experiments. Do you think we could use Ekiga for a >>> scenario like this? >> Yes, ekiga supports audio and video communication. >> But it is not intended to be used for direct peer to peer communication. >> The contacting is made thanks to a server generally. >> >>> I also wonder about the network traffic. What kind of network hardware >>> do we need in our lab to have 10 people chat at a time? >> You can choose the quality of the audio and video, and so the bitrate. >> a 10Mbps is enought if you use a switch, with a hub you could have some >> problems. As of today, 100Mbps is the most common network speed, and >> switches are standard (it's hard to find hubs), so no worries to have >> for the network aspect (other then the firewalls). >>> We would also like to control who is talking to who. Do you think it >>> would be difficult to write a software which would allow us to match >>> partners centrally? And can Ekiga be used to record all videos? >>> >> Ekiga is a SIP client (audio and video communication). To connect to >> other SIP user (SIP being an open standard implemented by other >> communication software) you need a server. A free SIP server is Asterisk >> (it's not an easy task to set one up). >> With Asteriks you can know who communicates to who, but the >> communication itself goes not trought the server, but directly between >> the users. Ekiga does not enable to record communication, so you'll have >> to do it another way : record the sound and video card of each user directly >> >>> Or maybe you know about other software, that would be more appropriate? >> I don't know myself, but may be someone else on the mailing list, more >> expert in this domain then me. >> >> >>> Any hints would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Timo >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ekiga-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list >> _______________________________________________ >> ekiga-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
