Ekiga

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Ekiga

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Ekiga 2.0.12 on Ubuntu 8.04
Older development version 2.0.12 under Ubuntu 8.04
Basic data

developer The Ekiga team
Current  version 4.0.1
( February 21, 2013 )
operating system Unix-like ( Linux , ...), Windows
programming language C ++ , C
category VoIP
License GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
ekiga.org

Ekiga , formerly GnomeMeeting , is a free software for audio and video - telephony over packet-switched IP data networks for Unix-like ( Linux , ...) and Windows operating systems.

Functionality

It also enables conference calls , uses Zeroconf to find other participants in local networks, shares contact data with Evolution , forwards calls and transfers ongoing calls, offers presence notification, maintains an address book and a call list and can penetrate NAT systems with the help of STUN .

technology

It supports a large number of audio and video codecs, including common methods of circuit-switched landline and mobile telephony, H.264 , Theora , CELT and Speex . Ekiga uses the free program library OPAL as the basic library for SIP and H.323 functionality .

use

Ekiga was the default VoIP client of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu until it was replaced by Empathy with version 10.04 of the operating system from October 2009 . According to automated user surveys (using the Popularity Contest software), around 40% of Ubuntu users still have Ekiga installed.

history

Damien Sandras initiated the project under the name GnomeMeeting on December 25, 2000 as a master's thesis at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium . GnomeMeeting was based on the OpenH323 library and used the H.323 protocol for signaling . With this capability, other H.323 clients (such as Microsoft NetMeeting ) could either be dialed directly (via the IP address ) or reached using a so-called gatekeeper as an exchange.

For version 2.0 the name of GnomeMeeting was changed to Ekiga. This happened because the development of a video conferencing program has turned more towards a multifunctional VoIP program and to indicate that Ekiga is not only intended for GNOME users. Since the program has since also had the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is popular for VoIP telephony , it has little in common with the former Netmeeting model .

A Windows version is publicly available from version 2.0.9 as a beta test version, but now also as a release version, on the Ekiga website. Free Software Magazine (FSM) introduced the program as the most popular free VoIP software.

Version 3.0 brought massive changes with it. Broad internal modularization simplifies the development of alternative GUIs and implementation of other protocols, which is one of the foundations for many of the features desired by users. As of version 3.2, the particularly low-latency audio compression method CELT is supported.

Pre-versions of Ekiga 5 available since the end of 2014 support u. a. also Opus , VP8 and H.264 .

Versions

  • February 7, 2001 - first publication
  • March 1, 2004 - Version 1.0 is released under the name GnomeMeeting
  • December 12, 2004 - version 1.2
  • September 5, 2005 - version 1.2.2
  • January 18, 2006 - Version 2.0 Beta 1 released under the new name Ekiga
  • March 12, 2006 - Version 2.0
  • March 11, 2007 - Version 2.0.7
  • April 14, 2007 - version 2.0.9
  • September 27, 2007 - version 2.0.11
  • March 10, 2008 - Version 2.0.12
  • September 23, 2008 - version 3.0.0
  • March 17, 2009 - Version 3.2.0
  • September 22, 2009 - 3.2.6
  • May 31, 2010 - Version 3.2.7
  • November 26, 2012 - Version 4.0
  • February 21, 2013 - Version 4.0.1 [STABLE]

Web links

Commons : Ekiga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ekiga.org .
  2. ↑ Blackduck OpenHub Project Summary - Ekiga . Open hub . Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ help.ubuntu.com
  4. ↑ Ekiga (FAQ): "Who created it?"
  5. ↑ Opus release. In: Wiki. Xiph.Org , December 23, 2014, accessed July 17, 2015 .