On 10/11/2014 10:42 PM, Carsten Agger wrote: > Some time back, Sam Tuke posted the findings of the FSFE group in > Manchester about "the hunt for Skype alternatives". > > Sadly, at the time the conclusion was that there were no *real* > replacements, as Skype handled some things (specifically lagging, I > think, and latency - latency used to be a *huge* problem in SIP > telephony) exceedingly well. > > Recently, however, I've been using the public Jitsi videobridge > https://meet.jit.si almost daily. It doesn't work with Firefox, but it > works with Chromium, most of the time nearly as if there was a hole in > the screen to the other person. I'm kind of impressed, and I see fewer > problems with the sound etc. that I usually do in Skype for GNU/LInux > (which I almost never use - I have to use it sometimes to communicate > with customers, though). > > Does anyone know of any compelling reason NOT to recommend Jitsi > Videobridge as a real free alternative to Skype?
For me the fact that it's not supported by Firefox is a stopper, but it's certainly better that Skype. What i tend to use more and more lately is Loop [1], the embedded on Firefox WebRTC Video Call service. It works really great with zero configuration. Currently it only supports 1-1 calls and it's on Firefox Beta (will be part of the next stable release). [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop -- Nikos Roussos http://www.roussos.cc
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