[maemo-developers] IHU

[From: sebastian maemo]

Hi, is anybody interested in porting IHU to Maemo?

*IHU* is a *Voice over IP* (VoIP) application for Linux (using Qt), that
creates an audio stream between two computers easily and with the minimal
traffic on the network.

I use Google Talk to communicate with my 770. The problem is that the other
part must use Windows, since there is not any application in linux (AFAIK)
that can establish a voice connection with Google Talk. Maybe I am wrong in
something, because 770 is a Debian system and uses Google Talk, but that is
what I have read at Google web site:
http://www.google.com/talk/intl/es/otherclients.html

The main features of IHU are:

   - Peer-to-Peer: the communication takes place directly between the
   computers (UDP and TCP both supported), without need of session protocols
   (such as SIP or H323) or other servers in the middle.
   - Good audio performance: IHU was born to give the best audio
   performance, low latency above all. For this purpose IHU is compatible with
   ALSA <http://www.alsa-project.org/>, now the default Linux sound
   architecture, but also with JACK <http://jackit.sourceforge.net/>, a
   low latency sound server. For the audio compression, IHU uses
Speex<http://www.speex.org/>,
   a codec optimized for speech (and completely free and open source).
   - Crypted stream: you have also the possibility to Encrypt/Decrypt the
   stream using a fast hybrid cryptographic system (RSA + Blowfish)
   - Command-line support: the GUI is not strictly necessary, you can run
   also a textual IHU from command-line (for example if you need to run the
   program on remote computers).
   - Free and Open Source: IHU is totally free and distributed under the
   terms of GNU General Public License<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

The possibilities of use of IHU are endless, for example you can use it like
a phone to talk with your friends all around the world, or at home/work, to
talk between computers in the LAN (talkback), etc.

http://ihu.sourceforge.net/
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