On Saturday 25 July 2009, Jussi Laako wrote: And yes, I'm hijacking, sorry.
>Nicola Larosa wrote: >> FEI (For Everyone's Info), while SIP is a standard and interoperable >> protocol, Skype is a proprietary protocol and app, and being a peer-to- >> peer system, it uses your bandwidth for other calls too. > >This is true, and IMO, XMPP/Jingle is even better standard. Downside of >these compared to Skype is more or less total lack of encryption for the >actual voice RTP stream. I would hope that SRTP would be used more, but >establishing the key infrastructure to support it can be a bit complex... This 'Jingle' is a new one to me. Unforch, verizon is exactly like M$ in that as a 2 bit company, they can't stand one bit of competition, so the user confirmation emails from most of the SIP servers are filtered to /dev/null by their servers. I have signed up for several, and never received the confirming email. That can't be just a co-incidence... >Empathy (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy) is "the" Telepathy client for >the Linux desktop. Telepathy + Farsight is a framework to handle >IM/presence/call signaling and streaming. I'll have to check that out, thanks. Humm, found a whole bunch of jabber stuff with yumex, about 180 megs worth installing now. I might be back for help. :) Q: Has that been wrapped for KDE also? Apparently not for kde4 yet. Thanks, now back to the thread. > - Jussi -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Vax Vobiscum _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
