GTalk Farsight, GStreamer and Linux
A lot has happen since the last post...
We have decided to put the messenger protocol aside for a while. Instead the plan is now to implement the video voice conversation using the Gtalk protocol. Its an opensource jabber based protocol and its well documented. Google uses this protocol it their voice application GoogleTalk.
The plan is still to make it as a plugin or an extension of Gaim.
Since last time my Linux filesystem has fucked up. Some inodes crashed and some of them where unfortunately central to the package system, so only one thing to do... reinstall linux. Zools computer also needed a reinstall since he had mucked some libraries, so we have decided to install Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy. This has been a huge succes. After 1½ hour we had both computers up running with drivers and all. And in a pretty much the same configuration.
We have looked a bit on the farsight libraries, but the are poorly documented (actually not at all), so we decided not to use it. It seems like a better choice to implement the same functionality ourselves.
The gstreamer libraries looks promising for our project. We have made a small hello world program which compiles and run :D It playes a sound using the gstreamer pipes. We have also done some source/sink sound testing using the gstreamer binaries.
The Jabber book we bought seems of little use and we have at last gotten the SIP book from Amazon.co.uk...
The Gaim book by Sean Egan is very nice, and i'm half way through now.
All for now... except for a merry Christmas wish!
We have decided to put the messenger protocol aside for a while. Instead the plan is now to implement the video voice conversation using the Gtalk protocol. Its an opensource jabber based protocol and its well documented. Google uses this protocol it their voice application GoogleTalk.
The plan is still to make it as a plugin or an extension of Gaim.
Since last time my Linux filesystem has fucked up. Some inodes crashed and some of them where unfortunately central to the package system, so only one thing to do... reinstall linux. Zools computer also needed a reinstall since he had mucked some libraries, so we have decided to install Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy. This has been a huge succes. After 1½ hour we had both computers up running with drivers and all. And in a pretty much the same configuration.
We have looked a bit on the farsight libraries, but the are poorly documented (actually not at all), so we decided not to use it. It seems like a better choice to implement the same functionality ourselves.
The gstreamer libraries looks promising for our project. We have made a small hello world program which compiles and run :D It playes a sound using the gstreamer pipes. We have also done some source/sink sound testing using the gstreamer binaries.
The Jabber book we bought seems of little use and we have at last gotten the SIP book from Amazon.co.uk...
The Gaim book by Sean Egan is very nice, and i'm half way through now.
All for now... except for a merry Christmas wish!
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