[162593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: skype shoots self in foot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JP)
Fri Apr 26 02:33:15 2013
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:33:01 +0200
From: JP <froztbyte@froztbyte.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2fvydkeg1.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:12:46PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> skype seems to have made the latest 6.x incompatible with 2.8 (which
> folk who care about screen real estate run) in that video no longer
> works between them.
>
> until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using
> jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/
> o uses open standard protocols
> o free, open source, apple pie, ...
> o supports opus codec which has really good performance across a
> wide range of bandwidth http://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/
> o multi-participant video on xmpp-based videobridge, also open
> source
> o does xmpp, sip, aim, icq, yahoo, ...
And last I tried it, it kept segfaulting on something dumb ;)
Nice to see it supports opus though. And I really wish the FOSS software
in this space didn't suck so much.
> i have an ejabberd+videobridge up if folk want test/use accounts.
> and it's easy to put up your own, of course.
>
> and while you are looking at escaping other big company servers,
> check out http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html, real
> peer to peer dropbox.
Since you've already done the legwork on that, maybe share some comments
so people can see how they could do it in their own env?
-J
