Ekiga Video Conferencing App Download 4.0.1

Ekiga (formerly known as GnomeMeeting) is an open-source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger app over the Internet. The purpose is to help you make voice-over Internet calls, hold video conferences, as well as chat with your friends. It works with the H.323 and SIP protocols, as well as other SIP compliant utilities and Microsoft NetMeeting. It supports HD sound and video quality up to DVD size and quality.

Because it uses both of the major VOIP Providers for home and standards (SIP and H.323), it is interoperable with many service providers and many types of hardware and software.

The application gives you the possibility to make some prior configuration settings with the aid of a wizard. You can enter your first name and surname, set up your SIP softphone or H.323 accounts, pick the connection type (e.g. modem, LAN, DSL/Cable), configure audio parameters (choose the audio ringing device, input, and output device), and select your video input device.

It provides a clean and intuitive layout that helps you easily change your status (‘Available,’ ‘Away,’ ‘Busy’), enter a custom message to your status, display images from your camera devices, show offline contacts, as well as switch between three view modes: contact list, dial-pad, and call history.

The utility helps you pick or hang up phone calls, hold or transfer calls, suspend the video or audio streams, choose between several view modes (local video, remote video, picture-in-picture, extended video roles), zoom in or out, and enable the full-screen mode.

The IM environment where you can chat with your friends is kept simple and basic. You may send a few emoticons, alter the Unicode characters, cut, copy, paste or delete messages, work with a multi-tabbed layout, as well as turn on the bold, italic, or underline mode.

It integrates an address book that keeps track of your call history. You may clear the entire list, call or send a message to the selected contact, as well as create an LDAP directory.

You may add a new contact by providing details about the name and SIP address. In addition, you may organize contacts with the aid of preset or custom groups (e.g. Assistant, Family, Friend). The account manager helps you configure all your accounts and enable, disable, edit, or remove them.

It gives you the possibility to tweak several parameters in order to add your full name, keep windows displaying video streams on top of other panes, enable network detection, and set up call forwarding options, namely always forward calls to the given host and forward calls to the given host if no answer or busy.

You can specify the timeout used for rejecting or forwarding incoming calls, automatically answer incoming calls, and play sound notifications upon different events (you may add custom WAV files from your computer).

You are allowed to configure audio parameters (pick the codecs, enable silence detection and echo cancellation) and video features (choose the codecs, adjust the picture quality, and specify the maximum video bitrate).

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Ekiga For Video Conferencing Free App Features

• Ease of use with a modern Graphical User Interface
• Audio and Video free calls through the internet
• Free Instant Messaging through the internet with Presence support

• Audio and video calls to landlines and cell phones with support to the cheapest service providers
• High Definition Sound (wideband) and Video Quality up to DVD quality (high framerate, state of the art quality codec, and frame size)
• Free of choice of the service provider
• SMS to cell phones if the service provider supports it (like the default provider)
• Standard Telephony features support like Call Hold, Call Transfer, Call Forwarding, DTMF
• Remote and Local Address Book support: Remote Address Book support with authentification using the standard LDAP technology, Local Address support in Gnome (Evolution)
• Wide interoperability: This software use the main deployed standards for telephony protocols (SIP and H.323) and has been tested with a wide range of softphones, hardphones, PBX, and service providers
• HIG Compliant GUI: It looks right, behaves properly, and fits into the GNOME user interface as a whole
• Contact centric interface: preferred contacts can be listed in the main user interface (Buddy List)
• Contact’s presence display: Offline, Away, Busy, Online status (SIP/SIMPLE)
• Message Waiting Indications Support: the app can tell you how many Voice Mails are waiting
• Easy account selection when dialing for a contact: auto-completion
• Call Hold: This effectively pauses Video & Audio transmission
• Call Transfer: You can transfer the remote user to another user
• Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always: This allows you to configure this software to forward incoming calls to a specified user
• Dialpad: This allows you to dial numbers using a graphical alphanumeric keypad
• DTMF Support: This feature is necessary when using services asking you to dial numbers
• Calls History: This is a convenient way for all outgoing and incoming calls
• Call Monitoring: Statistics about the network traffic caused by Ekiga are displayed in the status bar
• Call Auto-Answer: Automatically answer all incoming calls
• Presence display: display your peer chat status
• Assisted NAT Support (automated STUN support): It has extensive and improved NAT support. In most cases, you do not have any configuration to do.
• Automatic addition of network neighbors contacts in the main user interface (using the Bonjour/ZeroConf protocol)
• Separate call window
• Desktop wide notifications
• Connection quality meter in the status bar
• Message Waiting Indications Support
• Instant Messaging with built-in smiley support (SIP)
• Graphical selection of smiley for easy inclusion in the text message
• Local network integration using the Rendez-Vous/Bonjour/ZeroConf protocol: This app users in the local network will show up automatically
• Detection of dynamic IP address changes and dynamic addition and removal of network interfaces
• Gateway/Proxy Support

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