Ekiga

I am leaving in a few hours for the south of Spain to spend my holidays there with Jonita, I will be back in 3 weeks. It means no GUADEC for me this year, unfortunately. It is a pity, especially with the high number of new features I could have presented about Ekiga and OPAL. Ekiga [...]

Today we celebrated the birthday of my wife Jonita, together with her parents. Celebrating the birthday of Jonita also means celebrating the birthday of Ekiga ! The first release of Ekiga (named GnomeMeeting) happened 6 years ago. I am personaly developing on the project since the end of November 2000. I think it makes of Ekiga one [...]

DirectShow Support I just committed the huge patch from Luc Saillard (from the PWC kernel module fame) to the SVN version of Ekiga. It means that the next release of Ekiga for Windows will have good support for video capture. H.264 Plugin Matthias ... [More] Schneider has also contributed an H.264-compliant plugin for Ekiga. It gives excellent results in [...] [Less]

We plan to contact all people having contributed to Ekiga or GnomeMeeting in the past provided their code is still being used. You probably all know that GnomeMeeting was licensed under the GPL with a special exception allowing it to be linked with OpenH323 and PWLIB which are licensed under an incompatible license, GnomeMeeting was renamed [...]

Yannick implemented a small script displaying the status information on Ekiga.net. In order to use it, simply add this to your page : where YOUR_ID_ON_EKIGA_NET is simply your username : (If you can not see how it looks like on the various planets, have a look at my blog directly.) If you click on the button while [...]

SIP Presence Ekiga 3.00 is progressing nicely. I have recently committed the XVIDEO output plugin from Matthias Schneider together with a rewrite of the video display routines. Matthias recently proposed another plugin, specifically for the WIN32 ... [More] release of Ekiga : DirectShow output. That work has been committed too. I have just committed myself our latest code for SIP [...] [Less]

Uraeus, if you have the possibility, I suggest you to test against Ekiga. Our RTP stack has proven to be reliable in the last 6 years.

The excellent XV video display support code from Matthias Schneider has been committed tonight. Matthias is already thinking to new improvements, so stay tuned for more ! I also did a rewrite of the pure GDK output to improve performances, which was an issue with SVN Trunk.

New release We released a new version of Ekiga. It contains important bug fixes, but also, for the first time, a build for Windows with an easy to use installer. This release is still marked as BETA, even if it is based on the same code as the classical Linux version. The reason is that we do [...]

I will be at FOSTEL with my colleague Vincent to represent NOVACOM. Dodji, see you there