sofia-sip-1.12.6 ready for upload

[Kai Vehmanen]

Hi,

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

>> Oh well, maybe I'll still ask around and try to find at least one
>> Debian user who'd like to use the app -- and only then add it to
> If it can handle video, you just found your one devoted Debian
> developer!

ugh, unfortunately it's audio only, so I guess I have to keep looking 
still... :)

> I looked briefly at the wiki but saw no mention of video control. But
> being Gstreamer-based it might be possible to simply(?) hook on ffmpeg
> modules, or...?
[...]
> I am looking for a CLI-based SIP client to build a
> wave-at-the-camera-to-make-a-call-to-hardcoded-destination system on a
> USB stick. I need it for my long-distance clients to reach me easily,

Yes, adding video should be really easy. The quickest route is to copy the 
code from Telepathy stream-engine, which supports gstreamer-based video 
telephony sessions.

Of course, a more sane approach is probably to use Telepathy directly. 
This is just the kind of usage scenario that really benefits from 
Telepathy's distributed architecture. Just put telepathy-sofiasip (the SIP 
plugin) and stream-engine (the media subsystem for Telepathy) daemons 
running (*), and then write a custom app that commands the applications 
over DBus (see tp-sofia/tests/tp_caller.c for one ugly example).

And as mentioned earlier in this thread, the abovementioned components are 
now being packaged to Debian.

(*) Well, to be precise, you just have to call their DBus methods and
     the daemons will be autostarted by DBus. :)

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