On 23 March 2012 10:11, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/03/12 23:57, James Tait wrote: >> Although I don't recall seeing the PulseAudio and zeitgeist-daemon >> problem, your experiences largely match my own. I work away from >> home for one week every six months or so, and have tried various >> solutions for calling my wife and two boys. Skype stopped working >> for us altogether, so we decided to try Jabber. >> > > We switched to Google+ Hangouts for this scenario. > > "Just Works" is a massive selling point. Being able to use it on the > phone too now is also super useful. Not a FLOSS solution, but then > neither is Skype.
For what it's worth, Google Talk and their Hangouts infrastructure is largely based around Jabber/XMPP protocols. As they transition to WebRTC (a standard for using voice/video in the browser without Flash) a lot of open-source libraries are popping up, both from Google and other folks. They are also planning to document and release their Hangouts protocol extensions. I know it's no use to anyone much now, but in 6-12 months I would be very surprised if there isn't a 100% FLOSS hangouts equivalent around. Regards, Matthew PS. More on the thread's original topic - Jabber/XMPP voice and video is at various stages of maturity in different desktop clients. You might take a look at Jitsi which (Java warning in advance for those that need it) I believe has more solid voice/video than most other Jabber/XMPP clients: http://jitsi.org/ . It's not yet fully mature, but many people are billing it as the open-source eventual "Skype killer". -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
