It would be nice to have Skype open source :-) But I think you can specify some ports for Skype if your firewall is so restrictive... On Mar 15, 2011 11:32 AM, "Alastair Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2011, Dragos D wrote: >> > Another approach would be a general instruction to start at the minimum, >> > and >> > increase until quality is good enough. If you step up and the picture >> > breaks >> > up then step down again , as that's as quick as your connection can >> > handle. >> > >> > For the future we could look at giving some diagnostic feedback and >> > advice if >> > the datastream is lossy or can't keep up. Perhaps an indicator that you >> > can click to reduce bitrate and reconnect the call? I guess if it was >> > reasonable >> > to approximate adaptive bitrate through reinvites everyone would be doing >> > it. >> >> These are some of the reasons for which, in general, Skype is a better >> solution. It can change on the fly the bitrate and adapt the image >> parameters accordingly. I say "in general" because sometimes I was not >> satisfied with their choices. They can adapt the resolution, framerate... >> to a chosen bitrate ( determined upon analyzing the network conditions). >> It can actually do 640x480 at 40 kbits/sec (if I remember correctly) !!! >> This I something I could not do with h.264 or any other available codec. > > I gave up on Skype when it couldn't reliably do 2-way audio through my > firewall, and there was no information on how to fix it because it's supposed > to "Just Work (tm)". Getting SIP working took some doing, but it's > sufficiently open that it was possible if I put the effort in. The target > should be to get the best of both; something that usually Just Works, but that > is fixable on the rare occasions that it doesn't, and can be tweaked to better > suit specific situations by anyone sufficiently clued up. > > _______________________________________________ > Linphone-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
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