[JDEV] Videoconferencing with jabber / Re:[speex-dev]Videoconferencing with speex and jabber

[Carsten Breuer]

Hi Richard,


> No not really, it is still placing an unnecessary requirement on one of the
> ..
> clients, its far better to have two separate modes fully p2p when
> conference if that goes offline no one will be able to chat. The Xbox live
> voice chat seems to work p2p with silence detection and works fine with as
> many as 20 people in the conference. Also the method of going direct p2p
> will help to reduce latency which could also become a problem in server
> hosted chats, SIP seems to work by establishing a p2p connection between the
> two endpoints too and the reason apparently for this is to minimize latency
> which in voice chats can be very noticable.

I think most things we have said are right and perhaps we should create
a protocol that is smart enaugh to handle this situations. Like a bus 
system where one entity can declare itself as master. This master can
then declare that it goes offline and that another machine must take 
over. I think if the protocol is smart enaugh, it's not a so big deal.
I allways love a generic solution, so i think this is a way to go.

Best Regards,



Carsten Breuer