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aside from the awesome technical exersize in hacking, i don't see this as any net benefit for VOIP. the time would have been much better spent working on the G
by foxhill 15y ago
aside from the awesome technical exersize in hacking, i don't see this as any net benefit for VOIP.
the time would have been much better spent working on the GNU VOIP client, not only would improvements have been usable without legal issues, they would be there in an (ostensibly, perhaps) understandable format - working code.
- pyre 15y agoThey could reverse engineer and document the firewall/nat negotiation bit, which could then be incorporated into the GNU client.
- foxhill 15y agoannoying and tedious that sort of code is, i agree, but not impossible? besides, i was under the impression that audio/video chats went through skype servers? (i've never actually checked though)
- pyre 15y agoFirewall negotiation uses the p2p aspect of Skype. It either goes through a regular peer or a super node, IIRC.
- evanwolf 15y agoSkype voice and video calls route media directly among participants with two exceptions. First, some thin clients on mobile phones and a few embedded devices don't connect directly to the Skype network, so media streams through Skype gateways operated by Skype or by Skype mobile operator partners. The other exception is for group video calling, a premium service, which redirects video streams through Skype servers to push computational loads for media transcoding from the desktop or mobile clients to Skype's cloud.
- bergie 15y agoThe right way to go about that would be to have a Telepathy provider that talks Skype. That is actually how Skype works in N900, but the implementation there is obviously proprietary.