Ekiga is a handy and useful application which provides users with an open source VoIP and video conferencing utility for GNOME.
Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting.
Here are some key features of "Ekiga":
· SIP Compliant
· Registrar Support
· Possibility to Simultaneously Register to Several Accounts
· Proxy Support
· Outbound Proxy Support
· Call Hold
· Call Transfer
· Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always
· Configurable Port Ranges
· Instant Messaging
· DTMFs Support
· Message Waiting Indications Support
· ENUM Support
· Transparent NAT Support, Assisted NAT Support (STUN, IP Translation)
· SIP re-INVITE support
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Major user-visible fixes:
· Major overhaul of the main window
· Add a new page in assistant with an introduction to accounts
· Unregister accounts when quitting
· Auto-answering to calls (in 3.3.0 in fact)
· Faster startup by not getting canonical name of servers
· Partial support of H.239
· Speed up registration when packets get lost
· Use optimised flags for H.264 video decoder
· Limit history book to 100 entries, fixing some crashes
· Improvements to the still experimental loudmouth plugin
· Fix chat messages are received several times if several network interfaces
· Set presence to offline upon quitting
· Blacklist NSE, fixing registration with some registrars, such as Eutelia
· Canonise address introduced when adding/editing a contact in roster
· Use gnome icons instead of ekiga's own
· Some fixes on online/offline presence
· Disable IPv6 by default, which caused some problems (will be enabled later)
· Fix a race condition in PulseAudio plugin
· Initial support for handling multi...
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