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I am bummed - I was hoping it was just straight up peer to peer video. Why do we need an intermediary?
by pnathan 12y ago
I am bummed - I was hoping it was just straight up peer to peer video. Why do we need an intermediary?
- jamesgeck0 12y agoTo give the clients a simple way to initiate their peer-to-peer session?
- johntb86 12y agoComputers behind some types of NATs can't use peer-to-peer video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_NAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...
- rdtsc 12y agoHow does your browser plan on accessing or seeing its "peers"?
- tedmielczarek 12y agoIt's using WebRTC which is peer-to-peer for the actual audio/video streams, you just need some kind of intermediary to exchange SDPs to connect in the first place. (There are some examples of clever workarounds for this, like copying and pasting SDP strings over IM, but they're not a good user experience.)