On Friday 05 Sep 2014 11:17:12 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Good news. Seems WebRTC is slowly making progress.
> http://danielpocock.com/webrtc-what-works-what-doesnt
The trouble with a lot of the alternatives to Skype is that many of them need
you to be running your browser at the time the call arrives or be pre-warned
(eg like setting up a Hangout). Skype has a client, which hides in the Task
Bar, so you can call anyone who is online.
The other problem is that (AFAIK) the SIP protocol doesn't perform as well as
the secret sauce protocol used by Skype. Video in Hangouts is rubbish
compared to Skype (when it works). It is blocky and there is a lot of
latency. My mother relies on lip-sync to 'hear' what people are telling her,
so Hangouts is useless for talking to her. Talking to my mother in the
Midlands is the main reason that I use video calling in the first place.
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