You can try http://appear.in
It's a browser based video-voice-chat client.
Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
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Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#12you should keep track of this one probably
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#13This should work with WebRTC (http://www.webrtc.org/) using the reference app: https://apprtc.appspot.com/
It should enable you to connect 2 browsers (e.g. Chrome and Firefox), all you need is to transmit the ID of the chat ("r" parameter from the chat URL you will get) to the peer, or the full URL.
It keeps amazing me that we do not have simple JS solutions for this, when projects like Chatroulette can be built in "2 days 2 nights" according to the author.
(by the way, here is WebRTC support for other browsers: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc4all/)
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#14http://simplewebrtc.com/demo.html Webrtc is here with p2p transmission of the camera + microphone (or files of course). I think it's time for all of us to move to p2p solutions that will come.
Actually it supports sending any byte stream accross. It amazes me nobody seem to have built a peer2peer network out of it yet.
Seems like a shot for open goal.
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#15Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#16This reminded me Richard Stallman's notes about the newly emerged Cloud Computing. He defined the CC as untrustable and advised to avoid. I'd suggest IP Telephones. Most of them are capable of making direct P2P connections without even any VoIP server. They only need an external STUN server to arrange the NAT configuration if you use the IP Phone behind a NAT router (which is almost always the case) There are many fr…
SIP/SIPS is nice. You can just use your IP[:port] as your phone number, and forwarding the required ports isn't too hard either if you're behind a NAT.
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#17I 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?
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#18http://simplewebrtc.com/demo.html Webrtc is here with p2p transmission of the camera + microphone (or files of course). I think it's time for all of us to move to p2p solutions that will come.
Actually it supports sending any byte stream accross. It amazes me nobody seem to have built a peer2peer network out of it yet. Seems like a shot for open goal.
Well there's P2P file sharing through WebRTC:
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#19I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?
#20You can try http://appear.in It's a browser based video-voice-chat client.
That looks really good but it's still a non-self-hosted solution.