RE: [JDEV] voice chat ...

[David Iodice]

The ICQ patch is rather trivial if you look at the code.  But I don't want to imply that it was a trivial effort on Brian's part.  In fact, I applaud him for getting it to work with ICQ.   I haven't seen yet if Brian was able to integrate the openH323 stack within SpeakFreely.  I should think that if you wanted to do voice chat, you might prefer to use a standards-based solution (although I'm not sure how long H323 is going to be around, it is here now and there has been momentum).    <recipe for=disaster> It is fairly easy to write a simple new VoIP client with the openH323 code (if you are a C++ programmer) and create you own "endpoint" (an H323 term).  There  are sample applications in the openH323 distribution. The code is ported to a variety of OS's   However, the BIG issue is that the software creates TCP and UDP connections so it has a need to get the IP address of the destination.  But I don't see that as a problem either (with a little code).  If the client requests a voice chat, the other client must "accept the call".  When the other client accepts the call, he/she/it should send its IP address back.  Now what will happen is a direct connect call  between the clients -- no server in the loop.   IF that Jabber client mod can be accomplished, I think you could wrap a system call around their simpleH323 program and pass it the right parameters without having to write any new code (from an H323 standpoint).  And you can do video chat as well :-) </recipe>   David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael J. Emswiler Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JDEV] voice chat ... Wow -- I've been out of pocket for almost 3 months now ...  and I really enjoyed the .NET distraction, er, discussion ... too bad I missed it ... anyway:   I too was looking for some Open Source voice support and ran across Speak Freely ... last I read he (Brian Wiles) was working on consolidating the Unix and Windows GUI into a single source base using wxWindows.   Anyone have any experience with this?    My first thoughts (but I haven't delved into it as of yet) is that it would have to be chopped up pretty good to replace it's current connection system with, say, a Jabber Client and an OOB ... but I know he has an ICQ patch so it might not be so bad   Thanks, MikeE ----- Original Message ----- From: saw keong To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:25 AM Subject: [JDEV] voice chat ... hello ...   i got your email from JDEV discussion ,   from your discussion , i've read about hearme.com that provide open sourse . can you give me the address of this site because i'm trying to develop a voice chat applet ...   thanks for you help .. i really appreciate it