GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 519474
Logging the video streams
Last modified: 2020-06-06 16:30:37 UTC
The ability to record the incoming and outgoing video streams is desirable for offline playback. In terms of accessibility the user might want to double-check some information in the stream, play it at a slower playback rates or simply keep it to watch the stream multiple times. Similar functionalities : "text logging", "audio logging". Additionally, the text based Instant Messaging can be used to annotate both the audio and video stream (captionning). This functionality is highly desirable in video conferences where IRC based chats are often used to capture the minutes of the meetings albeit independantly from the recorded video or audio dialogues. This is a form of "real-time" and "just-in-time" video/audio annotation.
I agree that this would be a _great_ feature, but given the collection of 'rising stars' in the vv-chat market (Telepathy's little underlings) wouldn't it make more sense to implement this in one of those clients? I was always under the impression that Ekiga dev was slowing and shifting to those platforms... I may be completely wrong, I don't use voice or video chat very often, just wondering.
The next ekiga version will have very different internals than the previous, so it takes time to make it ready ; call recording won't be part of the next release since there are other things which come first, but it would be an interesting feature indeed.
Ekiga is not under active development anymore: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273 Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.