Asterisk-people,
Some of you may have heard that we were working on a simple, cross-platform IAX client library called "iaxclient".
We've pretty much been "on vacation" with the project for a while, but recently have made some progress, and now have the library working across platforms, and a simple test client called "testcall", up and running on 3 platforms:
testcall runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.
I've been using it for a day now, and the quality is pretty good, of course it does depend on the sound hardware you're using, etc.
testcall is a simple command-line app, which is just a test interface to the library, but it seems to work well, and I've used it to make some calls both across local networks, as well as over the internet.
Some more information, including links to pre-compiled binaries, are available at http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net Source code and build directions are available from the sourceforge CVS servers.
Iaxclient uses digium's libiax, the portaudio audio abstraction libraries, the gsm codec, and other components.
Feedback is, of course, welcome.
People interested in making a cross-platform GUI for a more full-featured client would also be welcomed.
Features upcoming would include:
1) Audio processing code:
Audio level detection, for callbacks to GUI "level meters", silence detection, and Automatic Gain Control (for adjusting input "levels" automatically) [perhaps also better handling of clipped inputs?]
2) Upgrades to libiax2
3) Simple, and lightweight GUIs for Win32 and MacOSX
4) testing and tweaking of jitter buffers, recovery, and other reliability enhancements [after first moving to libiax2].
-SteveK
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