Relevant: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/embedding-webrtc-video-chat-right-into-your-website/
This is incredibly lightweight for servers (it's peer to peer, no central server taking all the video and sending packets to everyone). Also encrypted. If I wasn't so jaded, I'd express hope that Google is moving hangouts in this direction but that the spec/implementation isn't there yet (IETF is still finalizing MTI codecs* and datachannel stuff). Regardless, it's much lower hanging fruit than reverse engineering skype or hangouts, no? -a *nokia is patent trolling vp8 On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Patrick Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > > You can't even enter (a video session) google hangout without installing > > proprietary software on your own computer. > > Would the problem be solved if we reversed the protocol and wrote a Free > Software client? > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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