> You mean even among > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=VOIP+Phones#SoftPhonesvoiceand >video you could not find a SIP or H323 (video over IAX .. ? ) >chat+voice+video solution ? > Could we know which of them you tried and compare ou results ?
Of course, you can. Let's see: 1. - Eyeball Networks - Audio/Video/IM/Dialpad. SIP-based Soft Phones commercial, no demo available 2. Comdial - Audio/Video Soft Phones commercial, no demo available 3. CPhone H.323 really old and unmaintained - not bad though 4. GnomeMeeting H.323 now migrating to SIP with new version, Zeroconf support Is here, it works, I have fun with it. I use it for many years - nowadays 1-2h a day :-) 5. Neos - Jabber client with whiteboard and H.323 video conference Tested extensively, use it for Windows. Good piece of software. Neos is Windows only, has H323, no SIP support, It is based upon OpenH323 - so Video Codec is H261 only, all the usual voice codecs, but STUN is missing as well as setting port ranges for RTP. Connects well to Gnomemeeting. 6. Jajah - Universal VoIP client with free videotelephony, chat, text messaging, voicemailbox and is compatible to SIP, Skype, Gizmo and IAX/H.323 Loud noise, advertised as the Best, Greatest. Finest - can't live up to its promises as it requires subscription to Jaja service. (everything said with Skype) Does not leave a serious and professional impression. 7-. MailVision : MailVision's Commercial SIP Soft Phone, a demo can be obtained. Haven't found the demo - perhaps someone else did 8. MCE SIP Phone A SIP softphone for Windows XP I don't have XP so I couldn't test it. Looks promising though. 9. Microappliances SIP Active-X Client Installable links on Websites Would require Internet Explorer - Showstopper 10. Microsoft Windows Messenger Well, I have W2K only - no XP. Couldn't get it to run. 11. Microsoft Portrait Downloaded it, installed it on W2K, tried to hook up to my Asterisk Server, failed misserably, browsed some howtos, read that (guessed it) SIP stack is not compliant with spec. Gave up as I realized that H261 is not an included Videocodec - so it won't connect to Gnomemeeting. 12. MythPhone SIP Good idea but requires big chink of installation (the whole Myth Framework). Haven't succeed to get it to run (well, I didn't invest time to compile myself) 13. Nortel SIP Multimedia Client Worksmart Multimedia Client: Provides voice, video, messaging, collaboration with Worksmart appliances and hosted service.] works with subscription service only - out of my focus 14. Pulver Communicator Video, Voice, IM, and RSS/Atom reader all-in-one program Same - Pulver only 15. SIP COMMUNICATOR Java based That's a nice piece of software as it promises to do Video VoIP, even with higher VideoCodec (well, H263 but, OK), I managed to connect it to my hook it up to my Asterisk (needed to correct some lines in the code) and could issue an LAN internal video call. I encountered stuttering and interrupted voice in all codecs and a stamp sitze qcif H263 image. The software is very unreliable i.e. now it doesn't recognise my camera anymore. Still alpha/beta stage - one should have a look into the code. 16. Siemens Schweiz AG need to sign stuff to obtain demo. Didn't want to do this. 17 sMeet multi-platform, H.323 & SIP, MPEG-4, 3GPP, H.263+, AMR, Speex, iLBC, Looks promising, din't test it yet though 18. TABLETmedia iFon: voice and video for mobile PDAs Well, don't like Windows CE - I wait for a decent Palm version :-) 19. Xten eyebeam SIP video soft phone They used to have free versions but withdrew them. I still use a voice only xten for my sip calls (until Gnomemeeting does the job flawlessly) - couldn't get hold of the video version. Now only crippled (provider locked) versions available, no demo (High quality piece of software though) 20. OpenWengo: GPL, multi-platform, SIP, voice+video Not really video - actially one can only transmit images of vapour and hot air. Looks promising in the long run. (not much going on for video though - I follow the page for a while) Though I myself edited some parts of that wiki it still lacks some: 21. OpenPhone - down to earth H323 clients without bells and whistles. Is based upon can do stun, UDP port ranges, gatekeeper etc. Nice piece of software -> easy to install - just one exe and some dlls, one key in the registry. I could pack it into a self extracting, auto configuring package. OpenPhone does it's job though it is old and unmaintained. It requires a Visual C++ compiler to build (which I don't have and won't buy) The image quality is poor though. For some H323 endpoints which have some strange firewall/ NAT issues which prevent the usage of Netmeeting OpenPhone is my only choice - until Gnomemeeting Windows comes out. Connects well to Gnomemeeting. 22. Netmeeting Everything said: bad citicen on the Net (random ports, sometimes calls cannot be established without reasons) but good image quality. Voice is patent infested G723 or G711 only but there are installable GSM codecs (available e.g. from Gnomemeeting website) and Speex (didn't work) I installed Netmeeting with my mother to call her from Gnomemeeting. 23. Konference (berlios) SIP videophone for KDE Promising but sparely maintained, impossible to build - only one developer. 24. Kphone with VIC Vic doesn't like my Philips cam and Asterisk doesn't like kphone. Works though - but unreliable (and Green-Screen) Forthermore the user interface is ugly and hard to understand. (why do I have to restart after entering the SIP parameters) No, this wasn't a careless post. I shopped around a lot in the search for a reliable video VoIP phone which I can send around without licencing issues. Anything else? Conrad _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
