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In the event of this actually happening, what are some alternatives to Skype's video chat?

by calebmpeterson 15y ago

jolan 15y ago
flash, SIP video, facetime, AIM/MSN
- calebmpeterson 15y ago
  can you elaborate on flash a little? thank you!
  - jolan 15y ago
    Elaborate how? It's been proven with sites like chatroulette. There are open source servers like red5: http://code.google.com/p/red5/ http://code.google.com/p/red5/
    - zheng 15y ago
      Chatroulette is not really an alternative to skype, but the link was interesting. I think the OP was looking for a similar video chat client. I've personally never used skype, but for 1-1 video chatting, gchat works pretty well. I use it nightly.
  - jallmann 15y ago
    tinychat.com
elliottcarlson 15y ago
A personal solution is pretty easy using something like OpenFire[1], Red5[2] and the OpenFire Red5[3] and SIP[4] plugins. Using this setup you can have an instant messenger, video chat and phone calls. [1] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ [2] http://www.red5.org/ http://www.red5.org/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/redfire/ http://code.google.com/p/redfire/ [4] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp (scroll down to SIP Phone Plugin)
VMG 15y ago
mumble has video planned (http://mumble.sf.net http://mumble.sf.net) It is not p2p but that could be implemented separately AFAIK
jerf 15y ago
Person-to-person video chat is a commodity. If there's a problem it is that there are too many solutions.
- nametoremember 15y ago
  Yep. It seems Skype just won on brand name.
  - pornel 15y ago
    They won on NAT traversal, ease of installation and lack of obnoxious ads. I've learned about Skype from my aunt who managed to install it and get it working without phoning me.
cop359 15y ago
I've personally been looking into this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi has anyone tried it? What do you think? I haven't gotten it to work yet,,,
- cookiecaper 15y ago
  I tried to use it for SIP recently and it did not work well for me at all. I am using Arch Linux and a tiling window manager. It doesn't seem to cooperate with my fairly normal sound setup and the interface is messed up on awesomewm at least. Not worth the effort. The most reliable VoIP program I've found is twinkle, but it hasn't been updated in years afaik. I used Ekiga exclusively for SIP and video chat for several months but it was plagued with really annoying bugs, including frequent hard locks and unreliable presence/call functionalities. I haven't been impressed with any Linux SIP/video chat applications to be honest. Empathy and Pidgin use gstreamer which usually doesn't work very well either. The most reliable video chat experience I've had is Skype, despite their buggy Linux client.
gst 15y ago
IMO XMPP/Jingle is the best alternative: - Open standard - Supports federation between different servers - Open source cllients available - Also integrated into GMail (that's the technology that is used when you do a voice or video call) - Will be fully integrated into Android starting with version 2.3.4
- bergie 15y ago
  Agreed. We were doing mobile video calls with XMPP with Nokia N800s already back in 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/

In the event of this actually happening, what are some alternatives to Skype's video chat?

jolan 15y ago

flash, SIP video, facetime, AIM/MSN

calebmpeterson 15y ago
can you elaborate on flash a little? thank you!
- jolan 15y ago
  Elaborate how? It's been proven with sites like chatroulette. There are open source servers like red5: http://code.google.com/p/red5/ http://code.google.com/p/red5/
  - zheng 15y ago
    Chatroulette is not really an alternative to skype, but the link was interesting. I think the OP was looking for a similar video chat client. I've personally never used skype, but for 1-1 video chatting, gchat works pretty well. I use it nightly.
- jallmann 15y ago
  tinychat.com

elliottcarlson 15y ago

A personal solution is pretty easy using something like OpenFire[1], Red5[2] and the OpenFire Red5[3] and SIP[4] plugins. Using this setup you can have an instant messenger, video chat and phone calls. [1] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ [2] http://www.red5.org/ http://www.red5.org/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/redfire/ http://code.google.com/p/redfire/ [4] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp (scroll down to SIP Phone Plugin)

VMG 15y ago

mumble has video planned (http://mumble.sf.net http://mumble.sf.net) It is not p2p but that could be implemented separately AFAIK

jerf 15y ago

Person-to-person video chat is a commodity. If there's a problem it is that there are too many solutions.

nametoremember 15y ago
Yep. It seems Skype just won on brand name.
- pornel 15y ago
  They won on NAT traversal, ease of installation and lack of obnoxious ads. I've learned about Skype from my aunt who managed to install it and get it working without phoning me.

cop359 15y ago

I've personally been looking into this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi has anyone tried it? What do you think? I haven't gotten it to work yet,,,

cookiecaper 15y ago
I tried to use it for SIP recently and it did not work well for me at all. I am using Arch Linux and a tiling window manager. It doesn't seem to cooperate with my fairly normal sound setup and the interface is messed up on awesomewm at least. Not worth the effort. The most reliable VoIP program I've found is twinkle, but it hasn't been updated in years afaik. I used Ekiga exclusively for SIP and video chat for several months but it was plagued with really annoying bugs, including frequent hard locks and unreliable presence/call functionalities. I haven't been impressed with any Linux SIP/video chat applications to be honest. Empathy and Pidgin use gstreamer which usually doesn't work very well either. The most reliable video chat experience I've had is Skype, despite their buggy Linux client.

gst 15y ago

IMO XMPP/Jingle is the best alternative: - Open standard - Supports federation between different servers - Open source cllients available - Also integrated into GMail (that's the technology that is used when you do a voice or video call) - Will be fully integrated into Android starting with version 2.3.4

bergie 15y ago
Agreed. We were doing mobile video calls with XMPP with Nokia N800s already back in 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/