Hello,
I ressurrected the media API and added VOIP support for
SILC. The patch
and files are at http://iki.fi/priikone/v
oip/ and include the new media
API which is based on Gstreamer 0.10.x. If you want to
commit it, it
effectively adds secure VOIP to Gaim (with SILC). I already
sent this
email yesterday but apparently the attachments were too big
and the email
didn't get through, so they are at that address now.
Some background on multimedia support in SILC. In SILC
protocol MIME is
employed to deliver any kind of media in the network. It
can deliver
audio, video and any other type of media that MIME can
represent.
Because of this it also is able to encapsulate practically
any kind of
multimedia protocol into SILC. This means multimedia
sessions can be set
up with SIP, H.323, Jingle, etc. We have however selected
as default
protocol the SDP (Session Description Protocol) to describe
multimedia
sessions and simple exchange using SILC message packets to
set up the
session (based on RFC 3264). The SDP is also used by SIP
protocol. In
case of SILC, SDP is the simplest method to set up
multimedia session, and
it is this protocol that the patch is using. Personally I
have no plans
adding SIP or any other support, for now.
The protocol allows setting up four basic types of
multimedia sessions:
Peer-to-peer with other client, peer-to-server for group
conferencing,
direct conferencing with client inside SILC network and
group conferencing
inside SILC network (bypassing NATs). The patch supports
currently only
peer-to-peer with another client. The current SILC Toolkit
doesn't bend
very well to the others, but this will be rectified in SILC
Toolkit 1.1
which specifically includes optimizations and features for
multimedia
applications. The peer-to-peer was hard enough to glue into
the Toolkit.
Currently also only TCP is supported, UDP will come later.
It's been tested, but can't hurt by testing more. Patch
against trunk.
Tested with Gstreamer 0.10.8, all plugins installed. The
files voice.[ch]
and sdpmessage.[ch] go into src/protocols/silc/. Any chance
this might
get into 2.0.0?
Pekka
____________________________________________________________
____________
Pekka Riikonen priikone at
silcnet.org
Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) http://silcnet.org/
------------------------------------------------------------
-------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web
services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to
make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on
Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/
sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Gaim-devel mailing list
Gaim-devel lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-devel
|