[Asterisk-Users] Announcing IAXCLIENT v0.02 A cross-platform IAX client.

[John Todd]

Just wanted to say that this is very encouraging, and I'd like to see 
more!  I've got MacOS-X, and I've been desparately waiting for a SIP 
or IAX client for this system for a while.  I've got your test code 
running, which looks extremely promising.   Alas, I am not a 
programmer, and couldn't do justice to putting a front-end onto it. 
But I anxiously await the progress of others, and would happily give 
you more feedback than you probably want.

JT


>Asterisk-people,
>
>     Some of you may have heard that we were working on a simple, 
>cross-platform IAX client library called "iaxclient". 
>
>     We've pretty much been "on vacation" with the project for a 
>while, but recently have made some progress, and now have the 
>library working across platforms, and a simple test client called 
>"testcall", up and running on 3 platforms:
>
>testcall runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. 
>
>I've been using it for a day now, and the quality is pretty good, of 
>course it does depend on the sound hardware you're using, etc.
>
>testcall is a simple command-line app, which is just a test 
>interface to the library, but it seems to work well, and I've used 
>it to make some calls both across local networks, as well as over 
>the internet.
>
>Some more information, including links to pre-compiled binaries, are 
>available at http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net Source code and build 
>directions are available from the sourceforge CVS servers.
>
>Iaxclient uses digium's libiax, the portaudio audio abstraction 
>libraries, the gsm codec, and other components.
>
>Feedback is, of course, welcome.
>
>People interested in making a cross-platform GUI for a more 
>full-featured client would also be welcomed.
>
>Features upcoming would include:
>1) Audio processing code:
>      Audio level detection, for callbacks to GUI "level meters", 
>silence detection, and Automatic Gain Control (for adjusting input 
>"levels" automatically) [perhaps also better handling of clipped 
>inputs?]
>2) Upgrades to libiax2
>3) Simple, and lightweight GUIs for Win32 and MacOSX
>4) testing and tweaking of jitter buffers, recovery, and other 
>reliability enhancements [after first moving to libiax2].
>
>
>-SteveK
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