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That is supposed to be what WebRTC is for. But major companies with their own motives are running the the major video chat solutions.
by Spoom 9y ago
That is supposed to be what WebRTC is for. But major companies with their own motives are running the the major video chat solutions.
- MurMan 9y agoWebRTC defines how the browser supports audio/video/chat endpoints. A practical video calling system needs servers to manage firewall traversal, a directory of users, and ways to admin the system. Who's going to provide that at no cost?
- seanp2k2 9y agoXMPP too. It can do video calling: https://xmpp.org/about/technology-overview.html https://xmpp.org/about/technology-overview.html Sad that Google + Facebook pulled out of federation a long time ago. We could have had bring-your-own-client cross-network all of this stuff. We still can, but realistically we won't.