We are planning to do a project which will provide voice support for Google talk in pidgin. May I know why the pidgin developers didnt implement the voice support for GTALK?
Are there any technical difficulties ?. Google has made open the libjingle library used by google talk for voice chat under windows. Can that library be used as it is for enhancing gaim with the voice chat feature ( for gmail users)?
Please reply soon.
thanking you,
shankar
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It hasn't been done because any attempt to get voice or video support in pidgin itself needs to be done in a manner that will work for all protocols, so we can't just throw in something that happens to work for Google Talk. Designing a system which works for all the protocols is a significantly more complicated task then doing the actual voice or video work.
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We are planning to do a project which will provide voice support for Google talk in pidgin. May I know why the pidgin developers didnt implement the voice support for GTALK?
Are there any technical difficulties ?. Google has made open the libjingle library used by google talk for voice chat under windows. Can that library be used as it is for enhancing gaim with the voice chat feature ( for gmail users)?
Please reply soon.
thanking you,
shankar
It hasn't been done because any attempt to get voice or video support in pidgin itself needs to be done in a manner that will work for all protocols, so we can't just throw in something that happens to work for Google Talk. Designing a system which works for all the protocols is a significantly more complicated task then doing the actual voice or video work.
This is volunteer work, so new major features are pretty unlikely to get implemented unless somebody who really wants it implements it themselves.