[MLB-WIRELESS] P2P Text/video/Audio chat?

[coles.david at gmail.com]

Taking a look at
http://ao2.it/it/blog/2010/02/22/extremely-brief-survey-link-local-xmpp
seems to indicate that most of the XMPP libraries currently lack
support for voice/video. I wasn't able to get it working between
Empathy and Pidgin even though the both support voice/video with
server based XMPP. Hopefully they add V/V support for link-local. It's
very handy for chatting with people who are "close by" without needing
to register accounts and exchange contact details.

Empathy seems to also allow you to do serverless chatrooms using
Clique (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/xmpp/clique.html) but it's
not supported by Pidgin.

Cheers,
David

On 10 February 2011 22:51, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
> I don't think you can do it serverless (btw david, I think you still
> need a server for xmpp - this is what http://www.LiveNRLchat.com and
> http://www.LiveAFLchat.com is built on top of.
>
> If you can run  a central server (doesn't need internet connection)
> check our Red5 which is the opensource version of Flash media Server.
>
> This does text/video for sure.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dean
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of David Coles
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:02 AM
> To: Mark Aitken
> Cc: Melb Wireless
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] P2P Text/video/Audio chat?
>
> One interesting approach is using XMPP's Serverless Messaging
> (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html) often called Bonjour or
> Zeroconf chat (it uses mDNS to discover clients).
>
> Works quite well on single broadcast subnets, though I don't know if
> they're managed to combine the Jingle audio/video extensions with it
> yet. Works out of the box with Pidgin and with iChat on Mac as well as a
> number of other XMPP/Jabber clients.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:01 +1100, Mark Aitken wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for software that will allow for text, video & audio
> chat.
>> peer to peer use.
>>
>> Must work in a closed network,  ie, no connection to the internet, no
>> central server.
>>
>> I have tried Netmeeting but not suitable.
>>
>> And freeware is best  :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
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