Farsight

Infobox Software
name = Farsight
released = 2006
author = Collabora
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = C GLib
platform = Cross-platform
genre = telecommunication technology
license = GNU Lesser General Public License
website = [http://farsight.freedesktop.org/ farsight.freedesktop.org]

Farsight is an audio/video conferencing framework based on GStreamer. The project aims to provide audio/video conferencing for as many instant messengers as possible through a modular design. Telepathy and Farsight constitute the first implementation of the Jingle XMPP protocol. The software is open source, being distributed under the LGPL and is intended to run on POSIX-compliant operating systems, including Linux. It has also been reported to run on Windows. It is currently being used for audio/video conferencing on the Nokia 770 [cite web |url=http://www.collabora.co.uk/23/multimedia-communication-you-need-telepathy |title=Multimedia communication? – you need Telepathy! |accessdate=2008-09-19 |date=2006-09-19] and N800 [cite web |url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-first-look-skype-for-the-nokia-n800-internet-tablet.html |title=First look: Skype for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet |accessdate=2008-09-19 |date=2007-07-11] .

Farsight is currently under active development in the farsight2 series.

Pidgin had a Google Summer of Code project to use Farsight2 as the conferencing framework [ [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/pidgin/appinfo.html?csaid=E50F2A539F7952CC YAVVA - Yet Another Voice & Video Application] ] [cite web |url=http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/VoiceAndVideo |title=GSoC2008: Voice and Video Support |accessdate=2008-09-19] at least in Jabber. [cite web |url=http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/vv |title=Voice and Video |accessdate=2008-09-19

References

External links

* [http://farsight.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Freedesktop project website]