Add IAX protocol support to Adium

[Astmasters.net]

Using the IAXclient library ( http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net), VoiceAndVideo support could easily be added to Adium.

The IAX protocol is a 3rd generation VoIP protocol that uses only a single UDP port, separating signaling and payload by tagging information elements instead of using different ports. 2nd generation protocols such as H.323 and SIP spread signaling and payload over different ports which causes various problems for NAT and firewall traversal and makes configuration for end users very difficult. Using IAX means true plug and play and the connections are more robust. IAX has recently been sumitted to the IETF for approval as an official internet standard.

There is also a standard for IAX services and how they are advertised using Zeroconf (aka Bonjour, aka Rendezvous). Following this, Adium users would be able to find IAX services advertised via Zeroconf, eg. IAX phones or Asterisk servers.

[boredzo]

s/VoIP and Video/VoiceAndVideo/; (hyperlinks ftw).

the downside to this is, it only works on this protocol that nobody's heard of, not on MSN or AIM or Jabber or *. you're technically right, that we would have support for VoiceAndVideo, but we still wouldn't have it for 99.999% of our users.

[cbarrett]

I am skeptical about how "easy" this will be. Is it already in Cocoa? Does it work with Quicktime? How is this any easier than porting Gstreamer and using the native protocol stuff, once that's in Gaim? Also, how would this work with non-Adium users, if at all?

[boredzo]

added to ConceptIndexOfTickets.

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik]

There are now a experimental JEP for IAX in Jabber...  http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0179.html

[matben]

Perhaps I can take the freedom to share my experience on using the iaxclient library on my coccinella ( http://coccinella.im). It was extremely easy to use with one exception: callbacks appear on various threads and somehow these need to be delevired to the "normal" application (UI) thread. With some help this was pretty straightforward, see  http://wiki.tcl.tk/15342 (Yes it is Tcl). With iaxclient reaching version 2.0 they have also added video support but I haven't tested that. And yes, iaxclient is x-platform, and I run it on linux/windows/Mac, but you don't care, do you?

[cbarrett]

This might be worth doing, actually. Many VoIP phones use IAX -- it would be nice if Adium could function as softphone for folks at work. I'll bet many of them would ditch their actual phones!

[zacw]

Closing all "waiting on libpurple" tickets. There's no reason to keep them around as open, and largely go ignored anyway. File a ticket at  http://developer.pidgin.im for any functionality you want to see.

[anonymous]

Milestone Waiting on libpurple deleted