Nicola Larosa wrote: > FEI (For Everyone's Info), while SIP is a standard and interoperable > protocol, Skype is a proprietary protocol and app, and being a peer-to- > peer system, it uses your bandwidth for other calls too.
This is true, and IMO, XMPP/Jingle is even better standard. Downside of these compared to Skype is more or less total lack of encryption for the actual voice RTP stream. I would hope that SRTP would be used more, but establishing the key infrastructure to support it can be a bit complex... Empathy (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy) is "the" Telepathy client for the Linux desktop. Telepathy + Farsight is a framework to handle IM/presence/call signaling and streaming. - Jussi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
