GSoC2008: Voice and Video Support

Student: Mike Ruprecht (Maiku)

To-Do:

1. Port Pidgin to use Farsight 2 (Done: until the next version is released)
2. Finish XMPP audio conference implementation (Making good progress: it works)
   • Fix up libPurple voice conversation support
   • Fix up Pidgin voice conversation support
   • Complete XMPP voice conversation support
   • Add support for GTalk's voice conversation implementation (requires libnice)
3. Implement XMPP video conference implementation (Making good progress: it works)
   • Add libPurple video conversation support
   • Add Pidgin video conversation support
   • Add XMPP video conversation support

Tips for Testers:

Make sure you are using the latest revision of ​im.pidgin.soc.2008.vv before asking questions and submitting bug reports.

It might be a good idea to review ​UsingPidginMonotone to understand what this means? (Kyrian)

Make sure you have:

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (not sure which version, but it needs to include the gstrtpbin plugin)
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight >= 0.12.6

in addition to the extra compiling requirements of:

• farsight2-0.10 == 0.0.2 (aka libgstfarsight0.10-dev)
• gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 (aka libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev)

Note: until Farsight 2's ICE transmitter (libnice) is completed, NAT traversal won't work very well. So, if you're behind a firewall, you'll probably only be able to start sessions within your local network.

Additional Tips for Debian/Ubuntu? Users:

You'll need these packages from the your Debian/Ubuntu? repositories:

• [apt://gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-good]
• [apt://gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad]
• [apt://libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev]

in addition to these packages you'll have to get from the Debian packages site (unless you're running experimental):

• ​libgstfarsight0.10-0
• ​libgstfarsight0.10-dev
• ​gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight

Additional Tips for Fedora Core Users (Kyrian):

The equivalent required Fedora package names would seem to be:

• gstreamer-plugins-good
• gstreamer-plugins-bad
• gstreamer-plugins-base-devel
• farsight
• farsight-devel
• gstreamer-plugins-farsight

They can be installed quite simply with the Yum system.

These come from Fedora base repos, and one from the Livna repo, in my setup. There are about twice as many packages again required for dependencies, but they come from the Fedora repo, so there should not be any problem caused by that.

Of course, you'll also need a client for the Monotone system installed for the above UsingPidginMonotone commands to work, these come from the 'monotone' package, which again can be easily installed using Yum.