Take a look at some of the plugins for MythTV - I think I saw one that would 
handle this.  And you get a DVR as a bonus.. :D  (DVR = Digital Video 
Recorder - like a TiVo.)

Shawn

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:16, Jarrod Major wrote:
> Hey Gang,
>
> With all of this interest in telephony I am curious about some stuff and
> was wondering if any of you know about this. I think the possibilities with
> Skype are pretty cool. I like the idea of SkypeOut that would enable you to
> call out to a regular phone system.
>
> This has got me thinking of an internal network. Does anyone know of a way
> to do this kind of communication between any computers within a network...
> directly? So instead of using Skype's servers as a middle man, is there a
> way to plug in someone's IP for example? Obviously Skype does not support
> this but I am wondering if there is something comparable.
>
> I feel that ICQ and just about any other instant-messaging service work the
> same way. I think it would be more efficient if you could just go peer to
> peer with this rather than through a communications server.
>
> Does this make any sense?
>
> Jarrod Major
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