Hi Peter,
server side you have the GNU Gatekeeper (https://www.gnugk.org) that
uses H.323 and is still under active development.
Unfortunately nonw of the available OpenSource endpoints is really
production quality. See my list at
https://www.gnugk.org/h323-endpoint.html
I think you best bet are the free (but not open) mobile H.323
endpoints, like RealPresence or Yealink VC (also on my list).
Regards,
Jan
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selin...@mathstat.dal.ca wrote:
> 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
> > >> 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
