The entire team is looking forward to this monumental push forward for Adium, Pidgin, and all projects that use Libpurple. These changes will anchor a large amount of new technology being implemented. You'll notice, of course, that we've denoted this as Adium 2.0 - and for good reason. You can follow our progress in the branch located at: Today, we are making all of the work we've been doing completely public to anyone wishing to help out.
Right now, we've got several mockups of the interface which you will find below.Īll in all, we've made an amazing amount of progress over the past few months, and we're confident we will continue to do so.
#Video adium code
In addition, we will be writing our own Gstreamer-based code to facilitate the bridging, and hope to commit those improvements as far upstream as we can. This includes things such as the user interface, local video preview, and bridge code between Adium and Libpurple. These efforts have been headed by Elliott, with tons of help coming from other members of the Adium team, who've been hard at work designing all of the things that we need client-side for AV to function.
In addition, Farsight has some support for Yahoo and MSN, which will surely be our foundation as we move forward on those protocols.įinally, we have a lot of work to do to Adium itself. Our very own Alan Humphries has been hard at work on extending Libpurple for AIM AV, and we hope to begin merging that work into the Libpurple voice and video branch as soon as possible. "What about AIM!?" you say? Great question. So far, GTalk receiving audio has been implemented into the Pidgin voice and video branch, however it is largely untested as no client has actually tried to use the code to this point. These new functionalities are being developed in a new branch of Pidgin, and development will continue as we improve our support for AV-capable protocols. Luckily, we aren't alone in this endeavor Sean Egan and the rest of the Pidgin team are working closely with us on integrating AV capabilities into Libpurple itself. Next, we have to make a number of additions to Libpurple itself. We are rapidly approaching the completion of this build system, and hope to integrate it into Adium trunk as soon as it is done and thoroughly tested.
These are all anchored around the use of the Farsight and Gstreamer projects to implement various capabilities at the Libpurple level. It's important to us that all of these new external dependencies can be easily upgradeable given that many are currently under active development. Augie Fackler and Elliott Harris have been heading up the effort to create a more flexible and powerful build system at the core of the Adium build process, allowing us to integrate a number of new libraries using their native build systems with ease. The team has worked extremely hard over the past four months under the leadership of Eric Richie, and we are extremely happy to finally be able to tell you what we've been up to.įirst up, a large number of changes to the Adium build system are in order. This is a herculean effort, as it requires the cooperation of several people from both Adium and Pidgin to accomplish, as well as the use of several new external libraries to facilitate a variety of tasks.
#Video adium update
A lot of you have been asking about audio and video chat for a while, and have been really frustrated by our response of "It's coming." We've been hard at work trying to make this a reality, and today we're excited to give you an update on our progress, and to show you where things will be heading in the future.Īround the end of July, a team was put together to begin working on integrating audio and video chat into Adium. Well everyone, we've got some great news.
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