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Version 9 (modified by kyrian, 16 years ago) (diff)

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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):

Additional Tips for Fedora Core Users (Kyrian):

The equivalent Fedora package names would seem to be:

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

These come from Fedora base repos, and one from the Livna repo, in my setup.

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