Voice IM project proposal

[Walter Bender]

Just as a reminder, there is push-to-talk already built into EToys,
though I haven't tried it for awhile--it certainly used to work just
fine.

-walter

On Dec 12, 2007 9:33 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> although full voip would be nice, simply adding voice to chat in a
> push-to-talk fashion might be nice, too.  i don't see why we shouldn't
> do both, unless the exact same people are invoved.
>  --scott
>
>
> On 12/12/07, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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> > > Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> > > > 4. Longer description       : Support voice conversation using voice IM
> > > >                             : between any two XO in a local mesh or
> > > >                             : globally, using the XO presence
> > > >                             : infrastructure
> > >
> > > This would be welcome.  VoIP has been part of the plan from the beginning,
> > and
> > > there's even a draft implementation at
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Push_to_Talk
> > > and early discussion at
> > > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/22
> > >
> > > VoIP development is currently blocking on Telepathy-Salut, which is our
> > > serverless communication manager.  Telepathy-Salut does not yet implement
> > any
> > > real-time channels (e.g. RTP), so there is no clean way to build VoIP into
> > the
> > > presence infrastructure when not connected to the global internet.
> >
> > That is quite an overstatement. It is true that salut at currently doesn't
> > support the telepathy interfaces needed for video conferencing. Which does
> > indeed mean we can't do VOIP when not connected to the internet at this
> > point.
> > Adding jingle support on salut is planned, but untill now we had other
> > priorities :)
> >
> > This does not mean VOIP development is blocked on salut though.. Gabble does
> > support the needed bits for VOIP. So you can continue work on the Video Chat
> > application right now, without needing to wait on salut. Also thanks to the
> > beauty of the telepathy design, as soon as salut starts support VOIP, it
> > will
> > work with the VOIP activity without any changes. So this work can be done in
> > parallel.
> >
> > And last but not least, Connection manager never implement RTP or other real
> > time channels themselves, they just do the signalling. All the actual work
> > of
> > sending and receiving the media is done by another component called
> > stream-engine which is independant of the protocol used for signalling.
> >
> >
> >   Sjoerd
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