GSoC2008: Voice and Video Support

Student: Mike Ruprecht (Maiku)

To-Do:

1. Port Pidgin to use Farsight 2 (Done: until the next version is released)
2. Finish XMPP audio conference implementation (Making good progress: it works)
   • Fix up libPurple voice conversation support
   • Fix up Pidgin voice conversation support
   • Complete XMPP voice conversation support
   • Add support for GTalk's voice conversation implementation (requires libnice)
3. Implement XMPP video conference implementation
   • Add libPurple video conversation support
   • Add Pidgin video conversation support
   • Add XMPP video conversation support

Tips for Testers:

Make sure you are using the latest revision of ​im.pidgin.pidgin.soc.2008.vv before asking questions and submitting bug reports.

Make sure you have:

• gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (not sure which version, but it needs to include the gstrtpbin plugin)
• gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight >= 0.12.6

in addition to the extra compiling requirements of:

• farsight2-0.10 == 0.0.2 (aka libgstfarsight0.10-dev)
• gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 (aka libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev)

Note: until Farsight 2's ICE transmitter (libnice) is completed, NAT traversal won't work very well. So, if you're behind a firewall, you'll probably only be able to start sessions within your local network.

Additional Tips for Ubuntu Users:

This assumes you're using Ubuntu 8.04.

You'll need these packages from the Ubuntu repositories:

• [apt://gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-good]
• [apt://gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad]
• [apt://libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev]

in addition to these packages you'll have to get from the Debian packages site:

• ​libgstfarsight0.10-0
• ​libgstfarsight0.10-dev
• ​gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight