Jitsi (formerly: SIP Communicator) is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour and a whole lot of other useful features including:
Features
- Voice and video calls using SIP and XMPP/Jingle (Actually the only XMPP/Jingle Client for Windows I know of)
- Desktop streaming and sharing
- Call encryption with SRTP and ZRTP
- Conference calls – also across accounts (audio so far – video and destop streaming in the works)
- File transfer for XMPP, AIM/ICQ, .NET Messenger Service, Yahoo!
- Direct media connection establishment (P2P) with the ICE protocol
- Instant messaging encryption with Off-the-Record Messaging
- Attended and blind call transfer
- Auto away
- Awto answer
- Auto forward
- Auto re-connect
- Call recording
- Encrypted password storage using a master password
- IPv6 support for SIP and XMPP
- Media relaying with the TURN protocol and Jingle Nodes
- Wideband audio with Skype’s SILK, G.722 and Speex
- DTMF with SIP INFO, RTP (RFC 2833 and 4733) and Inband
- DNSSEC
Supported Protocols
- XMPP (Google Talk, LJ Talk, Gizmo5, Facebook Chat, …)
- SIP
- .NET Messenger Service (commonly known as MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger; no multimedia support)
- Bonjour (Apple’s implementation of Zeroconf)
- OSCAR (AIM/ICQ/.Mac)
- Yahoo! (only basic chat and file transfers)
Tested Interoperability
- Asterisk (Video and Audio)
- Linphone (Video and Audio)
- Ekiga (Video with additional H264 codecs, Audio)
- Empathy (XMPP/Jingle – without encryption, Video and Audio)
- Google Talk (Video and Audio)
Jitsi (SIP Communicator) supports multiple operating systems, including
- Windows
- Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD.
- Mac OS X
SIP Communicator is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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