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OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 323 Location: London, England

Here is one I compiled in Precise Puppy. Also OK for Upup Precise.

This one has all available audio and video codecs including gsm, ilbc, amr, g729, Silk (Skype-based) and x264. The sign-in wizard thing is working and the audio seems better on this than on the other versions above.

At around 1.5 MB this .pet is not bad size-wise for a video enabled sip softphone with Instant Messaging.

By the way, Linphone will operate peer-to-peer but it likes you to have some sort of username in the sip address so can be "sip:yourname@ipaddress" or "sip:root@ipaddress".

Otherwise you can sign up with Linphone for your own free SIP address. Other providers are available eg. iptel.org

Some providers will allow you to make cheap calls to phone numbers anywhere in the world. One example is nonoh.net but there are others so shop around.

Updates:-

05th January 2013 - Uploaded new build, just a few changes and it is now a bit smaller than it was. Removed a couple of things that were not needed. NLS now included. Added libcares which may improve performance (?).

15th April 2013 - DOWNLOAD LINK NOW IN FIRST POST

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 693

In precise 5.4.3, linphone-3.5.2-pp.pet
Click options preferences :

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 323 Location: London, England

Hello linuxcbon

Thanks for testing and for the report.

You do get a few warnings and other grumbles in console with Linphone but the essential functions all seem to work (unless you have spotted something that doesn't).

I tried putting an image file into /usr/share/linphone and renaming it 'linphone2.png'. The warning goes away but the image doesn't appear in the gui or anywhere that I can see so it may not be needed.

The 'signal handler' warning probably relates to the wizard which doesn't appear at all in the other Puppy builds (you get a 'signal handler' warning on start) and is just a bit of a gimmick (certainly not essential).

Linphone is developed very much as a multi-platform app so there may be bits of code from other platforms or older versions that stray in there. Also it may be that other Linux distros more bloated than Puppy contain packages which cause a few extra features to build when compiling Linphone in those distros.

Linphone is an app that interests me and I have played around with it quite a bit, but I am still a relative novice with Linux and compiling so if anyone has any ideas about how it could be improved in Puppy I would welcome their input.

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 323 Location: London, England

Standard Linphone 3.5.2 will not compile in Slacko 5.4 because the newer ffmpeg version causes fatal errors, but CatDude discovered a way of editing the source code so that it will now build. Trade off as things stand is that a couple of the video codecs which are based on ffmpeg are missing but you still have 3 to choose from.

On my machine the VP8 video codec causes crashes but I just disable it. It may work for others. The H264 seems perfectly acceptable ( try the video echo test at sip:9877@qxip.net ) and you have Theora in there as well.

Slacko 5.4 users may wish to test:-

15th April 2013 - DOWNLOAD LINK NOW IN FIRST POST

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 323 Location: London, England

Some people are into ringtones I know. The ringtones for Linphone are located in /usr/share/sounds/linphone/rings so you can always place ringtones of your choice in there. The ones that get built when you compile Linphone are .wav files which are quite big and don't compress very much when creating a .pet so I remove all but one of them to keep the package small. This .pet will put three of them back in so you have a bit more of a choice. I quite like the Big Ben one.

15th April 2013 - DOWNLOAD LINK NOW IN FIRST POST

laurentius77 · Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 37

It seems that all the Linphone links are broken.
Tried to compile myself the application from source with no success until now.
Can somebody upload linphone packages in another place? I think that all the packages from the forum that exceeds 1MB are lost...
Does this sip client supports TLS+SRTP with certificates?
I need a linux softphone with these capabilities and I couldn't find one...
Thank you.

laurentius77 · Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 37

Many thanks!

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 323 Location: London, England

Hello laurentius77,

I've moved the download links to Datafilehost for now and put them in the first post.

You do have to jump a few hurdles and avoid a few pitfalls when compiling Linphone. As for TLS it does show in the options but not sure if all SIP providers support it. About SRTP / zRTP I am not sure, but I think these things need to be enabled at compile time and may not work anyway. I may try an experimental build at some point (any preference of Puppy version?) but I wanted to get the package as small as possible with nothing that might disrupt the basic functionality.

General announcement:-
I have included a build for Wheezy in the first post.

laurentius77 · Joined: 30 Mar 2011 Posts: 37