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annoying 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?
by foxhill 15y ago
annoying 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.