skype shoots self in foot

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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, ...

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.

randy

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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 Comparison – Opus Codec
  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 :wink:
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

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until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using
jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/

And last I tried it, it kept segfaulting on something dumb :wink:

try the nightlies

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?

only issue we have hit so far is nat punching, and that could be our
mistake.

randy

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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.

This looks very useful. Would love to see mobile devices (e.g. Tablets) supporting it.

I dislike having to put my stuff on servers just for sharing among my devices.

Cheers,
Rajiv

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This looks very useful. Would love to see mobile devices (e.g.
Tablets) supporting it.

<aol>

I dislike having to put my stuff on servers just for sharing among my
devices.

or for sharing between friends/co-workers. i just don't like putting my
stuff on other people's servers, period.

randy

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until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using
jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/

And last I tried it, it kept segfaulting on something dumb :wink:

try the nightlies

I'm trying the latest two nightlies -- two annoying bugs so far, and I haven't even tried contacting anyone yet with it.

    --Steve Bellovin, Steven M. Bellovin

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report bugs. they're great about fixes

randy