Feature changed by: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) Feature #313201, revision 10 Title: Jitsi - open alternative of Skype openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Bogomil Shopov (bogomilshopov) Developer: Daniel Zucchetto (danileo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Bonjour and many other useful features. Jitsi is Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We need to push FOSS alternative to Skype and Jitsi is the best solution so far. It supports a lot of features described here: http://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Features Audio and video calls with perfect quality Desktop sharing and streaming Discussion: #1: Alexandre Rogoski (aledr) (2012-02-07 00:03:00) It is already available at network:telephony[1]. Build just need to be enabled. It works although. [1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=jitsi&project=network:telephony #2: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) (2012-02-09 11:01:01) (reply to #1) The package is not ready for the distro yet AFAICS. Would be nice to have it though. The first thing it needs to do in %build is rm -rf lib to get rid of the pre compiled binaries and bundled jars. #3: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) (2012-04-17 15:07:05) (reply to #1) as of 3 of April there is the 1.0 stable version shipping. There is an rpm available (but I did not try to install yet, would like to avoid on this machine rmps from outside the official repos. #4: Oleg Millloshev (olegue) (2012-05-22 20:40:14) I have some impressions from jitsi since it was sip-communicator now. The rpms could be installed with YAST installer easily. There are two major issues I do not like with that very useful program. First one is a great amount of CPU power it uses on audio call, it could come up to 40%, recently they have included support for pulseaudio which make the picture better the audio call dropped to 20% , but even that is quite much compare with linphone 2 - 3% CPU. With video call CPU usage goes up to 100% that does not make it an application for daily usage. Linphone still is best in stability, low CPU usage in audio and video calls for a linux desktop. SLFphone gives more features then Linphone but is unpredictable in action. The second problem with Jitsi is the video source . I have got a tv card and a web camera with my comp, and Jitsi used to see the both and choose between them but last stable releases see only tv card as it stands for /dev/video0. If those two issues are corrected the application will come very useful as the other hand Jitsi tends to offer all a user will need as features and supported protocols. + #5: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) (2013-03-29 11:39:23) + There is a version 2.0 out, but unfortunately the package does not seem + maintained any more. This is a pity since installing it from the site + is for me a non go, it would originally require Oracle-java and I am + not willing to use the latter because of the (sorry for telling this + but it is my opinion) stupid and dangerous way that Oracle handles the + license issue (no repo). While 1.0 was working quite limited on 12.2, + it was however working. And it was a way to communicate easily with + people using other O.S. So it would be nice to see at least a test + package of 2.0 ported to 12.3. The "Factory 1.0" package still works + with 12.3. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313201