Peter Saint-Andre schreef:
Sivan Porat wrote:
I understand that there is a spec going on for video chats. Is there a
plan to provide also video gateways to enable video chats with other
IMs, such as AIM and ICQ?
Probably not until AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo use open standards for voice
and video (such as RTP). Don't hold your breath.
As far as I am aware, MSN uses SIP+RTP (with some pre-signalling on the
MSN network to get the IP address required). Yahoo does, as well. I
might be wrong on the RTP part, but signalling is pretty definitely SIP,
but for video and audio.
On that note, and off-topic, but because there might be some
likewise-interested folks hanging around here: has anyone, recently,
gotten VoIP sessions with third-party software and MS' messenger to
work? Any good pointers in this regard? Or is it dead simple and should
it really just work with open (SIP+RTP) standards? I have not yet tried
to manually do this, and would like to know if there are any big hurdles...
--
Frank
