Jitsi on FreeBSD

Jitsi is an open source VoIP and IM application. It supports several popular protocols (most notable SIP and XMPP), and offers encrypted chats (OTR) and encrypted voice and video calls (SRTP/ZRTP). It is mostly written in Java (Swing for the GUI also) with some parts written in C because it uses a plethora of third-party libraries in order to be multiplatform (when Java fails, the third-party libraries comes to the front).

The purpose of this page is to serve as a starting and coordination point for anyone that wants to help in the better integration of Jitsi on FreeBSD. Throughout the years, the Jitsi mailing lists has received emails from several people about trying to port Jitsi on FreeBSD with working audio/video calls, but as far as I know, it did not end well.

At the moment (2013-Aug-13), on the Ports tree there is an outdated version of Jitsi (1.1). The updated version (2.2 - latest stable version) exists as a PR in GNATS (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181115)