Ekiga

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Ekiga
Developer(s)Damien Sandras
Stable release
4.0.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 21 February 2013
Preview releasen/a (n/a) [±]
Repository
Written in
video conferencing
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websiteekiga.org

Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) was a

NetMeeting. It supports many high-quality audio and video codecs.[4]

Ekiga was initially written by

University of Louvain (UCLouvain). It is currently developed by a community-based team led by Sandras. The logo was designed based on his concept by Andreas Kwiatkowski.[5]

Ekiga.net was also a free and private SIP registrar, which enabled its members to originate and terminate (receive) calls from and to each other directly over the Internet. The service was discontinued at the end of 2018.[6]

Features

Features of Ekiga include:[7]

Integration

Ekiga is integrated with a number of different software packages and protocols such as

Video4linux and FireWire camera
.

User interface

Ekiga supports a

URLs and H.323
/callto support is built-in along with full-screen videoconferencing (accelerated using a graphics card).

Technical features

  • Call forwarding on busy, no answer, always (SIP and H.323)
  • Call transfer (SIP and H.323)
  • Call hold (SIP and H.323)
  • DTMF
    support (SIP and H.323)
  • Basic instant messaging (SIP)
  • Text chat (SIP and H.323)
  • Register with several registrars (SIP) and gatekeepers (H.323) simultaneously
  • Ability to use an outbound proxy (SIP) or a gateway (H.323)
  • Message waiting indications
    (SIP)
  • Audio and video (SIP and H.323)
  • STUN support (SIP and H.323)
  • LDAP support
  • Audio codec algorithms:
    AMR-WB] using Intel IPP)[8]
  • Video codec algorithms:
    H.264, Theora, MPEG-4[9]

History

Ekiga was originally started over Christmas in the year 2000.

UCLouvain.[5]

Ekiga was referred to as GnomeMeeting until 2004 when a name change was thought necessary by the developers.

VoIP software. It was also proposed that some people assumed they needed to run GNOME to run GnomeMeeting, which was no longer the case.[citation needed] Eventually on January 18, 2006 the name Ekiga was chosen based on an old way of communicating between villages in Cameroon.[13] Around that the time the direction of the software project was changed and it turned into a SIP client.[5]

The following shows major version releases:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ekiga 4.0.1 [STABLE] available". 21 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Inside GnomeMeeting". O'Reily Linux devcentre.com. 2005-03-17.
  3. ^ "Ekiga". Ubuntu Documentation. 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  4. ^ "About Ekiga". Ekiga Wiki. 23 February 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  5. ^ a b c "Ekiga". Josetteorama. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  6. ^ "Ekiga General - Ekiga.net discontinued". Archived from the original on 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  7. ^ "Features". Ekiga Wiki. 27 September 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-02-28. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  8. ^ "OPAL Plug-In for Intel Integrated Performance Primitives". Vox Lucida. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  9. ^ Ekiga Current Features Archived 2009-02-11 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved on 2009-07-09
  10. ^ "Video-Conferencing". NotesBIT. 24 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-01-02. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  11. ^ "Community". Ekiga. Archived from the original on 2011-12-20. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  12. ^ "1.2 Roadmap - Name Change". GnomeMeeting-list. 23 May 2004. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  13. ^ "5 years of Open Source Voice over IP". Damien Sandras. 3 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
  14. ^ "Ekiga 5.0 - the Next Big Thing | Ekiga ~ Free Your Speech".

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