Jingle is an extension to

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(Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) which adds

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(P2P) session control (signaling) for

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

interactions such as in

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(VoIP) or

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communications. It was designed by

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and the XMPP Standards Foundation. The multimedia streams are delivered using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). If needed,

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is assisted using Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE). , the Jingle specification is a Stable Standard, meaning: "'' Implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard.''" The libjingle library, used by Google Talk to implement Jingle, has been released to the public under a BSD license. It implements both the current standard protocol and the older, pre-standard version.

Clients supporting Jingle

* Asterisk PBX * Coccinella. * Conversations (software) * Dino (software) *

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(using

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framework) * FreeSWITCH * Gajim * Google Talk for Gmail, Android, Windows * iChat for Apple OS X * Jitsi (multiplatform support using

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) * KDE Telepathy (using

framework) * Kopete * Miranda NG (via JGTalk plugin) * Movim *

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* Psi * QIP Infium *

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/YateClient supports Jingle in both client and server mode, audio and

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, also call transfer and DTMF. Though not an instant messaging client, RemoteVNC uses Jingle as one of the screen sharing means.

Technical Details and Further Resources

* XMPP Standards Foundation detailed specification. * libjingle project documentation on GitHub. * Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol explanation. * Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) overview.

Notes

References

External links

XMPP Standards Foundation
{{Instant messaging Instant messaging protocols VoIP protocols XMPP