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It's based on whole new video standards. It's not compatible with the existing setup and would have been hard to integrate for a beta.
by jmreid 16y ago
It's based on whole new video standards. It's not compatible with the existing setup and would have been hard to integrate for a beta.
- johns 16y agoAre you speculating or do you know that for a fact?
- Samuel_Michon 16y agoFaceTime is based on numerous technologies: * H.264 and AAC – video and audio codecs respectively * SIP – IETF signaling protocol for VoIP * STUN, TURN and ICE – IETF technologies for traversing firewalls and NAT * RTP and SRTP – IETF standards for delivering real-time and encrypted media streams for VoIP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime Sounds very similar to iChat videoconferencing, which also uses h.264, AAC, SIP, RTP and SRTP. The only difference I could find is in the way iChat traverses firewalls and NAT, which it does via SNATMAP. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1507 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1507
- johns 16y agoI wasn't contending that. I was wondering if the commenter had an knowledge that integration was difficult.
- jmreid 16y agoI guess I mean that FaceTime doesn't support all the iChat features and would be hard to just fit into iChat. Not to mention iChat is based around buddy lists, AIM service (or Jabber) and FaceTime uses your address book, push notification server, etc. You can't screen share, file share, or multi-person video chat in FaceTime. It would be confusing to users if FaceTime was just tacked onto iChat as is. It just makes more sense to have it be a standalone beta.
- metageek 16y agoThey could have created FaceTime to be compatible in the first place.
- jmreid 16y agoMaybe they don't want it to be compatible.