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GnomeMeeting 1.0 Videoconferencing/VoIP Released

Posted by simoniker on from the fishing-rods-at-dawn dept.

Howard Vanbel writes "Apparently the developers of GnomeMeeting have released the final v1.0 version of the videoconferencing/VoIP software. GnomeMeeting started as a final studies work at the Department of Computing Science and Engineering of the Universite Catholique de Louvain and after 3 years of development, GnomeMeeting 1.00 is ready! GnomeMeeting is the most advanced Open Source VoIP and videoconferencing software available - there's more info in the project FAQ."

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  1. More interesting... by Trillan · · Score: 4, Informative

    More interesting to me than GnomeMeeting is OpenH323, which uses the MPL. That will presumably allow other developers and existing chat programs to be compatible with it.

    There's a plethora of standards for video chat. It's nice to see this product it based on an existing standard, and some code is available for that standard under a license suitable for commercial applications.

    1. Re:More interesting... by vinsci · · Score: 4, Informative

      FYI, GnomeMeeting 1.0 is based on the OpenH323 libraries. Later versions will build on the OPAL library (same develeopers as OpenH323) for SIP support.

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  2. SIP, IAX, etc... by larsl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Linphone and Kphone both manage to handle SIP, such that they interoperate well with Asterisk and FWD. I should hope that Gnomemeeting has support for at least SIP in their next release.

    http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/
    http://www.linpho ne.org/?lang=us&rubrique=1

  3. Re:KDE port ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Konference is afaik based on gnomemeeting.
    http://developer.berlios.de/project s/konference/

  4. Re:But unfortuantely it's h323 only by heikkih · · Score: 5, Informative

    Damien Sandras, the main developer of GnomeMeeting, stated today that SIP-support is one of the main targets for GnomeMeeting 2.0, as well as better integration with the rest of the desktop (e-d-s, bonobo and dbus).

  5. Re:Multi-Platform Solution Required by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    H.323 is platform independant, that's the purpose of a protocol. There are several different solutions for Windows available already (openphone, sjphone, cuseeme to name a few)

  6. Re:Multi-Platform Solution Required by Doyle · · Score: 5, Informative

    It uses H323 so it's compatible with a lot of stuff. I use GnomeMeeting to chat to Windows users and OS X users. OpenPhone and NetMeeting for Windows, OhPhoneX for OS X.

    Also I believe GnomeMeeting is now (just about) usable on OS X with Fink.

  7. Re:ESR was just mentioning this last week by David+McBride · · Score: 4, Informative

    I happened to have a quick play with GnomeMeeting yesterday, and I disagree with your comments.

    Sure, the low-level configuration screens give you full control and look scary because of it -- but it's not the primary means for users to set up GnomeMeeting. Most users won't even go in here.

    Instead, the first time you run the application it leads you through a very simple and well explained wizard which sets up your sound, your webcam, directory details and all the rest. Very straightforward.

    Once through, you get the nice simple front-end where you can either tap in the URL for the person you want to call, use the main directory or (if you've got a GM -> landline bridge account) tap in a phone number.

    It was astonishingly easy. And I'm not even using the 1.0 release.

    This is one package where the user really can be ignorant of a lot of the underlying details and still use the technology.

  8. Instant messaging and applications by zby · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is an article by Steve Boyd about the importance of integration of IM and office apps: Real Time Revolution
    It includes an interesting interview with an MS manager about what MS is doing with Live Connection Server and office apps.

  9. Re:thank god ... by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 3, Informative
    H.323 is a really difficult protocol to proxy. Windoze Internet Connection Sharing does it OK, and my Netgear firewall/router is supposed to be able to handle it, although I only got ADSL a week ago so haven't actually tried yet. Most of the little freeware proxies you can get from download.com can only do e-mail, HTTP and FTP if you're lucky.

    Anyway, after RTFFAQ 7.12, it does appear to port hop but there are various suggestions to make this work through a firewall or router.

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  10. Re:Hooray by mkro · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't mention what Windows version you use, but it still IS in XP, just hidden: Click start->run and run conf.exe, and there it is.

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  11. Re:NAT and Firewall support by willamowius · · Score: 3, Informative

    I forgot the URL: www.gnugk.org

  12. Re:thank god ... by willamowius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just use the GNU Gatekeeper as a proxy for your firewall or NATed network.

    It's freely available on *iX, Windows and Mac.

  13. dynamic port mapping by BigBuckHunter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most nat/fw/proxy's can be configured to work with h.323 without opening a bajillion ports to the world. The down side is that most methods only work for a single user at a time. Regardless, I would recommend the use of a gatekeeper on the edge somewhere to handle a multi-user h.323 environment. There are free ones (from openh323) and non-free ones (whitepine). There are even hardware based solutions, with features like multiple presence, conference management, and radius integration available.

    Thank you for your time,

    BBH