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.

If you're following the UsingPidginMonotone HOWTO, use "im.pidgin.soc.2008.vv" instead of "im.pidgin.pidgin".

For help with building, see ​Compiling Pidgin. Please carefully read through that section and any extra information for the distribution you're using.

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
• gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10

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

Update: now that STUN works with the rawudp transmitter, calls should work through NATs to some degree.

Additional Tips for Debian/Ubuntu? Users:

You'll need these packages from the your Debian/Ubuntu? repositories, instead of the ones listed above:

• [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 9+ Users:

You'll need these packages from the Fedora package repositories, instead of the ones listed above:

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

You'll also need this package, which needs to be compiled from source.

• ​farsight2-0.10

You have to use FC9+ because otherwise the gstreamer base package is too old to support the farside2 package above.