Hi Eugen, thanks! Yes, we are using something similar to the link you gave.
Still it is oddly frustrating that there is no open source solution. The H.323 standard is a 20-year old open standard, and there seem to have been various projects that are all abandoned. I might yet try to resurrect one of them, if I have time! Thanks for the information. -- Peter Eugen Dedu wrote: > > Hi, > > Ekiga is not ready for H323, unfortunately. I tried it once with an > H323 equipment in France and it did not work. There are still bugs > which make it unusable. > > French researchers have access to a very easy to use videoconferencing > system, https://rendez-vous.renater.fr. You have access when they > invite you for a given videoconference. You just need a browser, no > need of plugins. I regularly use it and it works pretty well. > > Kind regards, > Eugen > > On 17/09/2019 15:30, selin...@mathstat.dal.ca wrote: > > Hi Bret, > > > > thanks for your reply. Of course I am already a Skype user. But I am > > specifically interested in finding some open source software that can > > connect to existing H.323 teleconferencing equipment. > > > > Occasionally someone requires this. For example, this week I must > > participate remotely in a Ph.D. defense in France and the use of Skype > > has been specifically forbidden. (Maybe for ideological reasons, as > > you say, or more likely, because it is unreliable enough that people > > usually spend most of their time worrying about resuming dropped > > calls, rather than getting on with the meeting). In that situation, I > > usually have to use some proprietary Cisco client, but if a Linux > > solution exists, that would be great. > > > > There seem to exist some H.323 libraries, such as H323Plus, but I > > cannot find any working software that actually uses those libraries. > > > > It is not a problem for me to use software that is no longer being > > actively developed. If it worked in 2012, it must in principle still > > work now. So if there is some way to get Ekiga, or something similar, > > to work, I would not mind using it. > > > > Thanks, -- Peter > > > > Bret Busby via ekiga-list wrote: > >> > >> On 17/09/2019, selin...@mathstat.dal.ca <selin...@mathstat.dal.ca> wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> this is a newbie question. I am trying to install Ekiga on an Ubuntu > >>> 19.04 system. I ran into several problems: > >>> > >>> * there doesn't seem to be an ekiga package in Ubuntu 19.04. At any > >>> rate, "apt install ekiga" said there was no such package. > >>> > >>> * I downloaded the sources. "configure" complained about a missing > >>> Boost library, so I installed it with "apt install libboost-dev". > >>> Now I get the following: > >>> > >>> checking for boostlib >= 1.34... yes > >>> checking whether the Boost::Signals library is available... yes > >>> configure: error: Could not find a version of the library! > >>> > >>> Since the previous two answers were "yes", I am not sure what is > >>> missing on the last line, nor how to install it. I'm not sure what > >>> "the library" is, if it is not "boostlib >= 1.34" or > >>> "Boost::Signals". > >>> > >>> Do you have some up-to-date installation instructions? I did check > >>> the wiki at > >>> "http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Installing_Ekiga_on_Linux";, but it > >>> hasn't been updated since 2013 (the Ubuntu instructions date to 2011). > >>> > >>> Or if this project is dead, is there a replacement that you can > >>> recommend? > >>> > >>> Thanks, -- Peter > >>> > >> > >> Hello. > >> > >> I believe that you are better not trying to install Ekiga, especcially > >> as a new user. > >> > >> No new development is being done, and, Ekiga is no longer fully > >> supported, insofar as I am aware. > >> > >> Whilst some people have an ideological objection to it, because it is > >> now owned and operated by Microsoft, and, also, its functionality has > >> been progressively reduced, over the years, since Microsoft took it > >> over, I recommend trying Skype, which is available for Ubuntu Linux, > >> of which, I currently run UbuntuMATE 16.04 (as my preferred OS) and > >> 18.04; both are LTS versions. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Bret Busby > >> Armadale > >> West Australia > >> .............. > >> > >> "So once you do know what the question actually is, > >> you'll know what the answer means." > >> - Deep Thought, > >> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > >> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > >> A Trilogy In Four Parts", > >> written by Douglas Adams, > >> published by Pan Books, 1992 > >> > >> .................................................... > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ekiga-list mailing list > >> ekiga-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ekiga-list mailing list > > ekiga-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > > > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > ekiga-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list > _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
