Manda,
Thank you for your opinions on my whiteboard question. You seem to be saying that whiteboard is only a little bit useful in a voip client, and since all of the open-source voip clients are in a state of constant development, nobody wants to spend the time to add strange non-voip features (like whiteboard) to the clients. That makes sense to me.
You mentioned that there are lots of standalone whiteboard programs available.
Can anybody recommend a few of these whiteboard programs?
Will these whiteboard programs be able to tunnel through NATs and firewalls
either by themselves or with the help of gnugk?
Manda Costin wrote:
Well, app-sharing and whiteboards is not VoIP,
but something else over IP.
A lot of applications exist to do that
and almost all the open source VoIP programs (like gnugk)
are under active development and bug solving.
I guess if a h323 software reaches complete maturity,
where absolutely nothing goes wrong and there is nothing to be done,
anything can be added to it.
What I think gnugk should have is modular support,
so that people that want to add stuff to the program
can be able to do it in a clean, non patch mode.
But first things first.
This is my opinion.
Original question, Michael Kendall wrote:
Several people on this list have stated that netmeeting is not good client software and have recommended openphone as a better client. But openphone has no whiteboard.
Netmeeting has the following features: audio video whiteboard application sharing zero-cost runs on windows
Openphone lacks whiteboard and app sharing.
It seems to me that none of the free clients
listed on the h323 site
have a whiteboard or app sharing.
Can someone please suggest a voip client
that meets the following requirements:
whiteboard or app sharing
cheap or free ( no monthly bills )
runs on Windows
reliable ( unlike netmeeting )
tunnels through firewalls + NAT ( perhaps using gnugk )
Do the H323 wizards consider whiteboard and app-sharing to be important features for a voip client, or are they just crazy features with little usefulness? Is this the reason that so few of the open source voip clients offer whiteboard and app-share? Please speculate.
Am I making a mistake when I look for a voip client with an integrated whiteboard? Is it better to look for a standalone whiteboard program that could be used simultaneously with Openphone and still be able to tunnel through firewalls? Can anyone suggest such a whiteboard program.
Any observations would be appreciated.
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