Re: [Iaxclient-devel] What are people thinking of/ planning to use iaxclient for?

[Steve K. <st...@st...>]

Scott Lambert wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:32:47PM -0400, Steve Kann wrote:
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>>There's now 36 people on the iaxclient-devel mailing list, and I figured
>>now would be a good time to get an idea from people of what they're
>>using or planning on using iaxclient for, what they'd like to see in
>>there, and what they'd like to work on.
>>
>>Obviously, nobody needs to tell us what they're doing, but I think that
>>if I know, or other people know what others are thinking, it can help
>>people work together better.
>>
>>I know there's a crew out there planning on using the library itself, in
>>some MS-Windows applications.  There's the people who have helpfully
>>contributed already (and they've been noted in the README).  I guess I'm
>>curious as to who's doing this as a hobby, who's planning on using this
>>as part of larger projects, etc.
>>    
>>
>
>Currently, I'm in the hobby end.  Mostly, I want a soft phone that
>connects to my home asterisk server from wherever without having to drag
>around another piece of hardware (ATA-186 or the like).  If it's going
>to connect to an Asterisk server, it might as well use the asterisk
>protocol.  Not having setup either, it looks to me like IAX is much
>simpler to configure than SIP or H.323.
>
>Basically, I want a dead simple way to use my home phone wherever I am.
>I am almost never without my FreeBSD laptop.
>

hmm, have you been using iaxclient on your laptop?  Are you using it 
with built-in microphone, and speakers, or with a headset (or at least 
headphones?).

If it's the former, then echo-cancellation is going to be something 
you'll need :)

I actually tried out Apple's ichat, and their acoustical echo 
cancellation seemed pretty good.  I didn't hear a lot of echo.  But they 
cheat a bit:  On powerbooks, there are two speakers, and the microphone 
is _embedded_ in the left speaker area.  So, I guess their echo 
cancellation wasn't good enough to deal with that kind of echo, so they 
end up playing output audio only through the right speaker :)

I dunno if other laptops use this somewhat questionable design or not..  
Most PC notebooks seem to have them separated a bit.

-SteveK