Reviewers FAQ

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Reviewers Frequently Asked Questions FAQ

  • What is Ekiga ? (in a nutshell)
  • Free software
  • Interoperability
  • Portability
  • Softphone (Ekiga) and VoIP service (Ekiga.net)
  • Help us

Features

Softphone (Ekiga)

  • The Graphical User Interface
  • Softphone features
  • Connecting the softphone (Protocols)
  • Quality of sound and video expected from the softphone (Codecs)
  • Which VoIP services the softphone can use ?

Voice over IP Service (Ekiga.net)

  • Ekiga.net is free VoIP service
  • Free sip address: sip:me@ekiga.net
  • Test service (500)
  • Conference calls (501/501xxxx PIN code)
  • Searchable Registration book (Ekiga White Pages)
  • Online status
  • Ekiga.net uses world wide numbers (ENUM)
  • Forward calling to other services (Peering)
  • Which softwares/devices can use ekiga.net ?
  • What Ekiga.net can't do and why ?

Study cases (RL)

Incoming new features

Ekiga SVN-20070505
  • Graphical User Interface changes (partially in SVN)
  • Presence SIP (in SVN since 2007/05/15)
  • Support for audio and video codecs on the form of plugins (H.261, H.263 and MPEG 4 Part 2 in SVN since 2007/05/06)
  • IAX2 support; voip-info.org wikipedia
  • Windows installer
  • Windows DirectDraw hardware accelerated video (preliminary version in SVN)
  • Windows DirectSound support
  • Windows DirectShow video capturing (more supported devices)
  • Xvideo code for hardware accelerated video (in SVN since 2007/04/24)
  • ZRTP

Useful links

http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Ekiga

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