ayttm

Yet another version of Ayttm out in the wild. This one does not have too many new bells and whistles though, barring the nifty little tray icon. Most of the changes have been bug fixes. The main reason we released is to get the yahoo protocol update out. Now Yahoo will no longer spew out the 'You messenger has expired' message when you login.

Yet another version of Ayttm out in the wild. This one does not have too many new bells and whistles though, barring the nifty little tray icon. Most of the changes have been bug fixes. The main reason we released is to get the yahoo protocol update out. Now Yahoo will no longer spew out the 'You messenger has expired' message when you login.

I've finally put out a first commit of the new IRC library code for ayttm on the libirc-mod branch in cvs. This one just loves to crash -- doesn't stay on for anything more than 15 minutes. Anyways, it felt good to see a complete implementation work ... [More] at all. Crashes can be taken care of. The main feature of this library is its modularity. I can add and/or remove features with ease as it has now been separated from all ayttm specific implementation. Add to that, there are some minor differences in behaviour as well as compared to the older implementation. For one, I think the login sequence should finally work on password protected servers -- the older implementation simply did not have support for it. Also, since NOTICE messages need not (and must not) be replied to, they're now shown as information popup windows. I must thank Barry Kauler and George Black for getting us to start working on revamping the IRC protocol plugin. [Less]

I've finally put out a first commit of the new IRC library code for ayttm on the libirc-mod branch in cvs. This one just loves to crash -- doesn't stay on for anything more than 15 minutes. Anyways, it felt good to see a complete implementation work ... [More] at all. Crashes can be taken care of. The main feature of this library is its modularity. I can add and/or remove features with ease as it has now been separated from all ayttm specific implementation. Add to that, there are some minor differences in behaviour as well as compared to the older implementation. For one, I think the login sequence should finally work on password protected servers -- the older implementation simply did not have support for it. Also, since NOTICE messages need not (and must not) be replied to, they're now shown as information popup windows. I must thank Barry Kauler and George Black for getting us to start working on revamping the IRC protocol plugin. [Less]

I've finally put out a first commit of the new IRC library code for ayttm on the libirc-mod branch in cvs. This one just loves to crash -- doesn't stay on for anything more than 15 minutes. Anyways, it felt good to see a complete implementation work ... [More] at all. Crashes can be taken care of. The main feature of this library is its modularity. I can add and/or remove features with ease as it has now been separated from all ayttm specific implementation. Add to that, there are some minor differences in behaviour as well as compared to the older implementation. For one, I think the login sequence should finally work on password protected servers -- the older implementation simply did not have support for it. Also, since NOTICE messages need not (and must not) be replied to, they're now shown as information popup windows. I must thank Barry Kauler and George Black for getting us to start working on revamping the IRC protocol plugin. [Less]

I've finally put out a first commit of the new IRC library code for ayttm on the libirc-mod branch in cvs. This one just loves to crash -- doesn't stay on for anything more than 15 minutes. Anyways, it felt good to see a complete implementation work ... [More] at all. Crashes can be taken care of. The main feature of this library is its modularity. I can add and/or remove features with ease as it has now been separated from all ayttm specific implementation. Add to that, there are some minor differences in behaviour as well as compared to the older implementation. For one, I think the login sequence should finally work on password protected servers -- the older implementation simply did not have support for it. Also, since NOTICE messages need not (and must not) be replied to, they're now shown as information popup windows. I must thank Barry Kauler and George Black for getting us to start working on revamping the IRC protocol plugin. [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]