Linphone
Linphone is a web
phone: it lets you phone to your friends anywhere in the whole world,
freely, simply by using the internet, with voice, video, and text
instant messaing. The software is compatible with the well
known Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
Linphone uses GTK+ for GUI and can be also run as a
console-mode application (linphonec).
Linphone 3.5.2
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Price
Free to download
Size
8.0MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Simon Morlat, Aymeric Moizard, Sharath Udupa, Sandro
Santilli and contributors
Website
www.linphone.org
System Requirements
GTK+
Support
Sites:
FAQ
Selected
Reviews:
Softpedia
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Features include:
- Attractive graphical interface
- Uses the well known and standardised SIP protocol
- Large variety of codecs with different quality / bandwidths
- Audio with the following codecs: speex
(narrow band and wideband), G711 (ulaw,alaw), GSM, and iLBC (through an
optional plugin)
- Video with codecs: snow, H263-1998, MPEG4, theora
and H264 with resolutions from QCIF(176x144) to SVGA(800x600)
provided that network bandwidth and cpu power are sufficient
- Supports any webcam with V4L or V4L2 driver
- Send large video pictures up to SVGA
- Text instant messaging and presence
- Addressbook
- DTMF (telephone tones) support using SIP INFO or RFC2833
- Understands SIP ENUMS (sip phone numbers using the naptr
DNS service, without proxy)
- Echo cancellation using the speex echo canceler
- SIP proxy support: registrar, proxies, with digest
authentication
- STUN support for traversal of UDP NATs (=firewall)
- Sound backend using either ALSA (the most efficient), OSS,
or arts (kde sound daemon)
- Supports IPv6
- Bandwidth limitations are signaled using SDP (b=AS...),
resulting in audio and video session established with bitrates that
fits the user's network capabilities.
- Use plugins: to add new codecs, or new core functionality,
such as remote directory search of sip addresses
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Last Updated Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 01:56 PM EDT
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