[KLUG Advocacy] Google launches...... Jabber

[awilliam at whitemice.org]

> I'm having problem's getting wine to work .. so that little project 
> is belayed for the moment.  Maybe someone could do a presentation on 
> wine?

Ha!  That one has been requested many times.  The problem is that WINE 
is almost
black magick.  I'd try installing the "sernet" WINE since that makes Internet
Explorer, Windows Media Player, and *most* of Office do something sort of like
work.  How?  Why?  No clue.  The link is in the list archive somewhere.

> Perhaps what I should have said more accurately, was that my specific 
> chat client, gaim, doesn't provide me with any option to voice 
> connect via google, so I am not certain that my statement regarding 
> using ONLY Google's chat client is true.  Do you have any suggestions 
> regarding other clientswe may try?  Or shall I move to restoring a 
> winders image and start sniffing?

Someone has already sniffed it.  The sad truth is that no Open Source client
will probably every be able to support the Google chat voice thing - they are
using the G.721 codecs.  Google must be paying a fortune in royalty fees.  It
doesn't mean other clients won't implement voice capability, but not 
compatible
with the Google client.

> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> I'm so happy about that.  I'm already using it and it works great.  
>>> One feature that is supported by using ONLY google's chat client is 
>>> the voice-chat feature.
>> Are we certain that is true?  There are a couple open voice-over-xmpp
>> specs (really voice-call-setup-over-xmpp).  I haven't diddled with
>> Google's client,  but it would be interesting to see what, if any, JEP
>> they are invoking for the voice feature.  Since the google client
>> doesn't support SSL just sniff the connection.
>>> I'm thinking that one could easily get support for voice-chat by 
>>> using wine on the 900K binary google provides as it's chat client.
>>> Has anyone tried this?  I'm about too.  I'll let you know what I find.
>>> adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>>>> Google's new instant message server is XMPP/Jabber!
>>>> http://www.google.com/talk/about.html
>>>> Now truly open instant messageing can proceed in trouncing all 
>>>> that other crap!

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