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OS/2 - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: onlineuser2 on 2007.09.17, 23:09:33

Title: VOIP
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2007.09.17, 23:09:33
I am wondering if it is worth while to have two bounties about voip (one for Skype and another for Wengo). Furthermore in the related forum items others software are pointed out.
Will the submitters and the sponsors agree in gather together the two bounties in one named Voip, leaving to the programmers the best choice?
Could this help in achieving the result shorter?
We have to find out a way to use voip!
bye
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: Paul Smedley on 2007.09.18, 06:12:13
Quote from: onlineuser2 on 2007.09.17, 23:09:33
I am wondering if it is worth while to have two bounties about voip (one for Skype and another for Wengo). Furthermore in the related forum items others software are pointed out.
Will the submitters and the sponsors agree in gather together the two bounties in one named Voip, leaving to the programmers the best choice?
Could this help in achieving the result shorter?
We have to find out a way to use voip!
bye

I use a hardware ATA....

Skype bounty is a waste of time IMHO - there's no source code and AFAIK no opensource Skype-compatible program or even specs......
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: Criguada on 2007.09.18, 10:53:09
I use a hardware ATA too, and I agree with Paul that he Skype bounty is a waste of time.
Skype is the MS of VoIP: trying to lock you in a proprietary and secret protocol that they can change at will. There is a valid and widespread standard: SIP. Let's go with it if we really want VoIP.

There are Java VoIP clients that could probably be used with OS/2-eCS.
The one I know of is SIPCommunicator:

http://www.sip-communicator.org/index.php/Main/HomePage

Bye
Cris
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2007.09.18, 18:35:02
I learnt a lot in few minutes.
I already inquired about ata, ata telephone, and prices voip account in my town!
Thanks.
It may be that somebody will test java voip under os/2.
Bye
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: kim on 2007.09.18, 21:41:45
The reason why there was some hope on the Skype bounty was due to that there was reports on reverse engineering done on the Skype client and it had been proven with a 3rd party Skype client was shown for a closed group of people. But, my guess is Skype bought that knowledge and wasted it. So I don't see any problem to join to bounties into one.
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: Andi710 on 2007.09.24, 19:45:29
Quote from: onlineuser2 on 2007.09.17, 23:09:33
I am wondering if it is worth while to have two bounties about voip (one for Skype and another for Wengo). Furthermore in the related forum items others software are pointed out.
Will the submitters and the sponsors agree in gather together the two bounties in one named Voip, leaving to the programmers the best choice?

I'm one of the sponsors for the OpenWengo port and I'm all for pooling resources to whatever application is easiest to port and to maintain (and under active development in general).

At the moment I'm using a hardware solution for VoIP, Siemens Gigaset SL75 (over my WLAN router). This is nice and VERY cost efficient talking to Europe from Canada (less than EUR 10 for unlimited calling into Western European fixed line using sipgate.de). However, a nice computer based solution is needed for all of us not ready to invest another 100-200 EUR into dedicated hardware. My hope is that we see video telephony under eCS as well.

Cheers
Andreas
Title: Re: VOIP
Post by: magog on 2007.10.24, 02:21:38
I'm also one of the sponsors for OpenWengo and I already said when the Skype Bounty was introduced it's a waste of time. In my eyes nothing changed.
OpenWengo now seems to support SIP but they are using Qt 4.x which is not available on eCS (still on level 3.3.x).
If there is another VOIP solution supporting SIP I'm in.

The problem with the Java based solutions: They are not really stable because of problems with JSound and the used Sounddriver. This is a problem for Golden Code and Innotek Java.
A direct access might be better than using Java + JSound.