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There's an XMPP extension for voice/video called Jingle, which a number of open source clients implement - one of them is Empathy, but I think Pidgin has a voic
by senko 14y ago
There's an XMPP extension for voice/video called Jingle, which a number of open source clients implement - one of them is Empathy, but I think Pidgin has a voice/video branch as well (or had it the last time I looked). Gtalk actually uses Jingle as well, so it's interoperable.
That said, one of the problems with open source solutions is that you often need a proxy (usually then both parties are behind nat), which opensource apps obviously can't provide/maintain.
- sciurus 14y agoOn linux Empathy, Gajim, Jitsi, and Pidgin all support audio and video chat. I believe they're all interoperable with each other and with the video chat in gmail. I think that Jitsi (formerly named SIP Communicator) supports audio and video chat on Windows and OS X as well. https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/
- LeonidasXIV 14y agoNot sure, GTalk the Windows app at least is not compatible and the browser plugin seems not to be either, because Google uses a pre-standard version of Jingle that is not supported by Gajim. They claimed to update the client.. some years ago, nothing happened.
- sciurus 14y agoYou refering to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689512 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689512 ?