[p2pu-dev] [Madlug] WebRTC

[Jesse Thompson]

I asked my contact involved with Google Talk.  His response:

     [WebRTC] is intended to be a game changer for creating web clients 
that support audio
      and video chat. The signaling protocol is left to the app 
developer, so you can gateway
      the abstract signaling from WebRTC to the signaling protocol of 
your choice, e.g. XMPP.

Jesse

On 6/3/11 3:21 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
> For P2PU, a browser based conferencing system would be terrific. We've
> experimented with a variety of stand-alone or flash based options and
> there isn't currently a great product that is open (or even free of
> charge) and let's us do all the things we'd like.
>
> BBB is probably closest, and we are hosting an experimental server at
> bbb.p2pu.org <http://bbb.p2pu.org> - but it has some issues and would
> require serious effort to integrate more fully into p2pu.org
> <http://p2pu.org>.
>
> Fingers crossed in anticipation for the XMPP hackers out there to come
> up with something new and better ... P
>
> On 3 June 2011 00:53, Douglas Whitfield
> <whitfield at opensourceplayground.org
> <mailto:whitfield at opensourceplayground.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:51, Jesse Thompson
>     <jesse.thompson at doit.wisc.edu <mailto:jesse.thompson at doit.wisc.edu>>
>     wrote:
>
>         The reason why A/V hasn't caught on with other XMPP services is
>         because clients haven't implemented the A/V part at all, or in a
>         way that works across all clients and across all platforms.  My
>         hope is that this WebRTC stuff can be leveraged by the
>         developers of open source web-based XMPP clients. If that
>         happens, then yes, it will be a major game-changer for closed
>         networks like Skype.
>
>
>     The above is essentially where I was going with this.
>
>     I didn't say this in my first message first time because I've had
>     Skype on the brain with the podcast I co-host, but I was thinking
>     web-conferencing more generally too - not just Skype.  There are a
>     lot of Flash video-conference implementations (and things like
>     UStream) out there and I'm hoping this can make some of that go away.
>
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