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Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by adamantium »

Can't tell about WebRTC or browser-based. When it comes to software, I've tried everything from the Wikipedia list and some more.

Most are either too buggy (Linphone) or closed source (many) or not multiplatform (so you can't talk to WindowsXP-user grandfather or vice-versa) or development stopped (Twinkle) or has no encryption (Ekiga).

The only one who passed was Jitsi.

It has more than 10 years of development, it's free / open source, very usable, multiplatform. It also accepts encrypted voice over XMPP, not only over SIP.

Look here - https://jitsi.org/Main/Features

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by adamantium »

ColinWright's question is about computer-to-computer calls.

His question is similar to one I've asked recently: Skype replacement for phone-to-computer and computer-to-phone (Skype-in and Skype-out numbers).

Can you please chip in if you know more? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6921672

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by adamantium »

binarymax wrote: post #2

A long list to go through, but this might be a good place to start. Hopefully it has what you need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software

Great list, just to save him and others some time and pain, I evaluated all of those in the list some months ago, and my conclusion is Jitsi is the only one multiplatform, encrypted voice, still under development, free open source and not unusably buggy. Or technical - grandfather has no idea what a NAT, ICE or STUN is.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6977463

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by malditogeek »

frik wrote: post #17

I am searching for an WebRTC server app (open source) that I can run on my webserver. All these WebRTC guys want me to use their pay-for-use web services. I found only EasyRTC that sort of worked https://github.com/priologic/easyrtc Can someone suggest Node.js or PHP (with libevent) implementations of WebRTC server apps?

I've been working on a Node.js server (signaling server in Node over WS, frontend built in Backbone) https://github.com/malditogeek/vmux give it a go. There's a running instance at http://vmux.co

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by sitkack »

daveid wrote: post #19

I am currently working on an in-browser peer-to-peer chat/audio/video application. It's a work in progress at the moment, but you can take a look: https://github.com/Gargron/baron As a desktop app, there's Jitsi, which works with XMPP and SIP accounts.

This has no license. _Any_ license is better than no license.

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen »

cordite wrote: post #57
f_salmon wrote: post #55

RetroShare has VoIP and is: - 100% distributed / peer-to-peer - public key encrypted - open source http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

I've tried it for awhile, but it's rather clunky (as of a year ago anyway for a few months) and is difficult to get others to use and share their keys and such.

Well, that's the price to be paid for security. Without key sharing and verification, you can't be sure who you're connected to.

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by daveid »

sitkack wrote: post #75
daveid wrote: post #19

I am currently working on an in-browser peer-to-peer chat/audio/video application. It's a work in progress at the moment, but you can take a look: https://github.com/Gargron/baron As a desktop app, there's Jitsi, which works with XMPP and SIP accounts.

This has no license. _Any_ license is better than no license.

It is now BSD-licensed.

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by songzme »

I built a site for super simple video chat originally to demo our company's product to clients. Its made to be easily accessible and used with ease. The more we used the app, the more we've come to appreciate its simplicity and our company now uses it to communicate with each other and between our offices around the world. Hope you will find this useful: https://opentokrtc.com

Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?

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Post by sixQuarks »

tommoor wrote: post #33

I've been working with WebRTC for a year now building Sqwiggle ( https://www.sqwiggle.com ) - In my experience I can tell you two things, - It's not really possible to go entirely peer-to-peer as many networks do not allow for this communication to happen. You would have constant issues with calls not being able to connect. Some centralised service is required for signaling, STUN and TURN which costs money and uses s…

This looks like a really cool product, but there's one thing that bothers me about this. I don't like the fact that the camera takes a picture every 8 seconds. I feel like I'm being monitored. Is this a concern that others have brought up as well? Is there an option to turn that feature off, but still make yourself available instantly?
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