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Fixed support for Speex calls for FP 10.1

Friday, August 27th, 2010

After updating to Flash Player 10.1 we’ve found that there were problems with Speex calls - no sound at all or big delay. Now we’ve fixed this issue and you can continue to enjoy Flaphone with new Flash Player 10.1

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Zingaya offers forwarding to SIP and landlines/mobiles in Free plan

Monday, August 16th, 2010

There is no reason to use flaphone callme subsystem now, because you will have forwarding to SIP and to landlines/mobiles in Zingaya Free plan in addition to Skype forwarding. Zingaya offers better calls quality and additional features. In Free plan your widget still has only 1 line available, for more lines - check Standard, Advanced or Custom plans.

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Zingaya service launched

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

As we mentioned before callme feature had to be detached to the whole new service. Now it’s done. Please meet Zingaya . Zingaya is a new webservice and it’s only about click-to-call widgets. It has a lot of features which makes it very advanced in comparison with old flaphone callme subsystem: multiple lines support, UDP transport, echo cancellation, calls recording, voicemail and many others. For now 3 plans are offered, one with calls to skype only is absolutely free. If some specific plan is required you can always submit your request and it will be reviewed. Servers are installed in different parts of the world and  new UDP-based protocol support reduces latency and provides with the best quality. Widget now can call up to 3 numbers simultaneously. It’s the best click-to-call solution for your site and it’s worth your attention.

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Skype opens up SkypeKit SDK

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

According to Skype they are ready to open up SkypeKit SDK which will allow developers to create their own Skype-compatible software. It’s a good move, let’s see what capabilities we will be able to use. Flash-based Skype is closer than it seems!

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CallMe-widgets will be detached to the new service

Friday, June 11th, 2010

CallMe-widgets concept was a very good idea, we received a lot of feedback and decided that this subsystem can be detached and form the whole new service. All I can say now - this service is about to launch and it will have a lot of new great features our users asked us for. We also worked on technology a lot and you’ll see UDP-transport support, echo-cancellation and many other interesting features in it.

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Apple FaceTime uses SIP, RTP and H.264 for video calls

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Apple announced FaceTime - video call system is built on open standards like SIP, H.264 and AAC, so it’ll work with other video calling apps as well. The problem is that H.264 and AAC aren’t open standards at all… But let’s wait and see how FaceTime exactly works. Maybe we’ll be able to call from/to flaphone from/to iPhone 4G.

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VP8 is coming to Flash Player after Google opened it for everyone

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

After Google has bought On2 there were a lot of talks regarding the future of VP8 video codec and finally Google open sourced it. Kevin Lynch (Adobe’s CTO) told that Adobe would add this new codec to Flash Player. Let’s hope they will add encoding capabilities as well, because Sorenson codec is very-very old one and we need something more contemporary for realtime high definiton video communications.

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AEC tests. Part 2.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

We’ve spent some time testing Speex AEC wrapped in SWC through Alchemy and finally have few points about that:

  • Speex AEC is working well, but in Flash it’s hard to use it, because of async nature of all SampleDataEvent calls. Although in few tests we saw it working, in real life it won’t work because of big latency and variable time between SampleDataEvent calls.
  • New flash player 10/10.1 audio features - playing audio samples and accessing audio samples from microphone will work only for non-realtime applications
  • Now it’s impossible to get audio data from RTMP audio stream and put it back to RTMP audio stream after it’s changed (applying AEC filters)

So even having access to samples on AS level it’s impossible to implement client-side AEC for Flash now. There are 2 options: wait until Adobe adds AEC to flash player itself (best solution, but unknown feature release date: Jobs is right about Adobe, they are lazy), implement server-side AEC (very complicated solution, won’t work for new flash P2P capabilities).

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First successful tests of AEC. Stay tuned.

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Adobe has informed that they are working on AEC support in Flash Player and it will be available later in the next release after 10.1, but we don’t want to wait another few years. In FP 10.1 we got access to microphone samples and playback samples and it makes possible to use some AEC. Although there are a lot of problems (only 44KHz playback mode) and async events firing our first tests showed that it actually works, but still have to solve some minor problems and adjust AEC for better quality. Prepare to have up to 40-50% of CPU load when AEC is working, but for most people AEC is worth it.

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Adobe confirms they are working on AEC

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

As you maybe know, there is still no Acoustic Echo Cancellation in Flash Player, it’s the problem for communication services if users aren’t equipped with a headsets. Finally, Adobe commented this issue and promised to add AEC to the next release of Flash Player, after 10.1.

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