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Interview with the Ekiga developers (Free Software Magazine)
Free Software Magazine interviews five members of the Ekiga development team. Ekiga is a Voice-over-IP application—and more—as the interview shows. "Matthias Schneider: Actually, Ekiga is not only Voice over IP software, it is also Video over IP software and the beautiful thing is that this additional capability is transparent to the user. When making a call, no thought needs to be given on how you want to communicate with your peers. You only need to dial a phone number or enter a sip address, Ekiga then takes care of negotiating capabilities at the other end. That means when calling a normal phone line it will be a a voice-only call, but if calling another softphone or even a hardphone that has video capabilities, video will be activated automatically (if the user has enabled this function)." (Thanks to Ian Ward).
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Interview with the Ekiga developers (Free Software Magazine) Posted May 6, 2008 7:19 UTC (Tue) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] As with all things transparent, one drawback is that it's quite difficult to debug when things don't work as expected. Oh well, I guess you can't satisfy everybody ;-)
Interview with the Ekiga developers (Free Software Magazine) Posted May 6, 2008 17:33 UTC (Tue) by dennisk (guest, #12308) [Link] Dash d (-d) turns on debugging. See Ekiga man page. Also, call a voice activated menu system like 1-800-goog411 and talk to the computer generated voice that will let you know that everything is working. Dennisk
Interview with the Ekiga developers (Free Software Magazine) Posted May 7, 2008 8:29 UTC (Wed) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link] I wish they'd fix this bug, which prevents the use of an IEEE 1394 AVC camera (DV camcorder) on recent kernels.
Interview with the Ekiga developers (Free Software Magazine) Posted May 8, 2008 21:12 UTC (Thu) by sgros (subscriber, #36440) [Link] It's interesting to note that they say ZRTP will be used for security, but in the IETF there is a decision to go with DTLS+SRTP and thus it's questionable whether ZRTP will be published in RFC form, especially other than informational or experimental. Does anyone have more information on that?
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