
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net
IHU is a Voice over IP (VoIP) application for Linux, that creates an audio stream between two computers easily and with the minimal traffic on the network.
The main features are:
* Peer-to-Peer: the communication takes place directly between the computers (UDP and TCP both supported), without need of session protocols (such as SIP or H323) or other servers in the middle.
* Good audio performance: IHU was born to give the best audio performance, low latency above all. For this purpose IHU is compatible with ALSA, now the default Linux sound architecture, but also with JACK, a low latency sound server. For the audio compression, IHU uses Speex, a codec optimized for speech (and completely free and open source).
* Crypted stream: you have also the possibility to Encrypt/Decrypt the stream using a fast hybrid cryptographic system (RSA + Blowfish)
* Command-line support: the Qt GUI is not strictly necessary, you can run also a textual IHU from command-line (for example if you need to run the program on remote computers).
* Free and Open Source: IHU is totally free and distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License.
The possibilities of use of IHU are endless, for example you can use it like a phone to talk with your friends all around the world, or at home/work, to talk between computers in the LAN (talkback), etc.
13 years ago
# IHU v. 0.6.0
- new feature: multiple calls now allowed (full conference not yet supported)
- feature improved: AGC moved from player to recorder (with mixer support)
- feature improved: sound input level added to GUI
- feature improved: TX threshold and AGC volume converted to dB
- feature improved: file player/converter in a standalone dialog
- feature improved: .spx file converter now faster
- feature improved: config file entirely reviewed, now it's possible to specify the file
- feature improved: now it's possibile to save the passphrase in the config
- feature improved: some improvements in the tray icons
- feature removed: JACK driver for output has been disabled
- bug fix: no more problems with XRUN handling for ALSA player
- source code: IHU architecture totally reviewed, GUI made independent from Phone
13 years ago
# IHU v. 0.6.0
- new feature: multiple calls now allowed (full conference not yet supported)
- feature improved: AGC moved from player to recorder (with mixer support)
- feature improved: sound input level added to GUI
- feature improved: TX threshold and AGC volume converted to dB
- feature improved: file player/converter in a standalone dialog
- feature improved: .spx file converter now faster
- feature improved: config file entirely reviewed, now it's possible to specify the file
- feature improved: now it's possibile to save the passphrase in the config
- feature improved: some improvements in the tray icons
- feature removed: JACK driver for output has been disabled
- bug fix: no more problems with XRUN handling for ALSA player
- source code: IHU architecture totally reviewed, GUI made independent from Phone
bugmenot1234
11 years ago
Hopefully someone can take over this fantastic app?!
Anyway there are not much apps in the "telephony" group, most of them not actuall and even twinkle is not based on Qt4 yet,... It's annoying!!!
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Smartnow
12 years ago
Could You implement higher Ports, such as 65000, please?
And perhaps a Choise, for Mono or Stereo Speex Codecs.
http://www.speex.org/comparison/
A better Security, I am paranoic, Choise for a Random Keys with constant
Lenghts (bits) greater as 448, 4096 the Best.
Capabillity to write the Names in the full UTF-8 Letter, such as
čćžšđ, чћжшђ don't work
öä$ü works
Thanks smartnow
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Smartnow
12 years ago
Regards Smartnow
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linux3114a
13 years ago
at
http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/
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dunkelstern
13 years ago
Are there any plans to add webcam video? If you would plan that I would be the happiest person ever :)
I don't know how complicated it would be to port this to windows but it's worth a look. This could get an alternative to skype if done right (of course that would be a longer journey then :) )
I'll look into the code and check what has to be done to get it to compile on windows, I'll contact you if I know more ;)
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mtrotta
13 years ago
Instead I think that I won't add webcam support for the moment, maybe in the future.
Please contact me if you're interested in the port to Windows!
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MayC23
13 years ago
Nice would be to use phonon. AFAIK phonon will work on windows too
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Kalidarn
13 years ago
We want to avoid KDE3 dependencies like DCOP thanks. Eventually KDE3 won't be supported anymore.
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linux3114a
13 years ago
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pejakm
13 years ago
I want to give it to my friend who uses Windows, to try it out...
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mtrotta
13 years ago
http://ihu.sourceforge.net/news.html
HELP WANTED! If somebody would like to port IHU on Windows, any help is absolutely welcome! Please contact me.
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pejakm
13 years ago
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mtrotta
13 years ago
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ralesk
13 years ago
I personally never had much luck with getting Speex to sound good — on the other hand I messed around with GSM 6.10 once and it seemed really decent. The library is also free for any use as long as the copyright and disclaimer notice is retained intact. (http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html)
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mtrotta
13 years ago
Concerning the codec, I know that speex is not the best for sound quality but I'd prefer to continue to use Speex because it's totally open and free, and it's growing.
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ralesk
13 years ago
My comment about Speex was just a personal programming experience — I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to try your software so I can’t write any feedback on its sound quality.
GSM 6.10 was just a suggestion as a possible alternative, in case you’d like to add support for other codecs, as it too is free (as said, the only thing required seems to be attribution, other than that, you do what you want with it — which is even more liberal than GPL).
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pejakm
13 years ago
Thanks
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sebastianwww
13 years ago
Is there any possibility to port ihu for the maemo platform so that it would be available for Nokia 770 device, which runs on a Debian system over an armel chip?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Sebastian.
PD: I would help in any way as much as possible.
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kumarnarain
13 years ago
Iam a beginner..I installed ihu and when I tried running it I got the following error message at the terminal
"ihu: error while loading shared libraries: libSoundTouch.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
How can this be fixed?
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mtrotta
13 years ago
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GuSArg
14 years ago
Thanks
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mtrotta
14 years ago
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meyerm
14 years ago
are there any techniques included to establish a connection between two NATed computers like STUN etc.?
Thank you!
M
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mtrotta
14 years ago
Anyway in the future I may add STUN support as optional feature.
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roger-z
14 years ago
And another question - are you going to prepare a version of IHU for Windows?
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