Internet wide chat

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 11:54 -0400, Chris Ball a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>    >  - They asked if video chat is possible.  I recall someone was
>    > working on it months ago.  What is the current status?
> 
> We need two things:  a codec that we can encode and decode in real-time
> (the demo from 2006 used h.263) and a transport layer -- I think we have
> a UDP transport for Salut, but not for Gabble, so video chat would be on
> the local mesh only.
> 

No. Gabble already implements Jingle audio/video (as gtalk). Transport
is done using UDP-ICE. Last year I wrote a simple (and ugly :) video
chat activity who was using this.

> It would be worth someone checking out the Theora team's latest
> optimizations, which might make Theora solve the codec problem.

Right. As said we need a good free encoder as H263 has legal issues.

So, if we want to have full audio/video support on XO's we have to:
a) Solve this legal codec issue and make farsight work with the chosen
free codec
b) Implement audio/video in Salut
c) Have a proper video chat activity integrated in sugar (#1627, #6301)
d) Profit :)


	G.