What Is LibJingle?
Sarah Perez on December 16th, 2005
No, seriously, what is LibJingle? According to the homepage, it’s "set of components provided by Google to interoperate with Google Talk’s peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities. The package includes source code for Google’s implementation of Jingle and Jingle-Audio, two proposed extensions to the XMPP standard that are currently available in experimental draft form." And that means nothing to me. So, someone explain in PLAIN english what this is. Because when I hear P2P and Google Talk in the same sentence, I’m interested.
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Hi Barbie,
Basically they decided to define a standard by which multimedia will be exchanged between Google Talk clients - for voice, video and all other media-rich content. There is no open implementation at the moment that everyone can agree on, but because of need many have hacked together voice chat.
You know how you like Live Communications Server and Office Communicator? They have the ability to dial to a regular plain old telephone service (POTS) line from the software. They use a protocol (SIP) to handle the voice data.
What Google is doing is setting and publishing an open spec saying… “this is how you send video, voice and everything else” and are essentially providing free software back to the open source community that developed the original Jabber/XMPP code that Google Talk is based on.
Why do they do this? Well, I have my opinion:
http://www.vladville.com/2005/.....sktop.html