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by mcantelon • 17 years ago

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_cbsz• 17 years ago

I've been able to get at gchat with XMPP for ages. Where's the news?

jauco• 17 years ago

Video chat through their xmpp extension

senko2• 17 years ago

Yes but not quite; they somewhat sidestepped Jingle standardisation process and extended then-current standard to suit their use case. They also primarily use(d) H.264/SVC which doesn't have readily usable free/open implementations. (more at my rant & google/xmpp dev comments here: http://senko.net/gmail-videochat-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ug...)

The good news is that since that announcement Google have been working with 3rd party devs to enable interoperability.

So (AFAIK) nowadays H.264/AVC should be working and there are implementations (Telepathy/Farsight that I know of, possibly others) that have experimental video interop with GTalk.

EDIT: the original "NIHd Jingle" comment is a bit too harsh (as the drafts of Jingle spec were changing very rapidly at the time), edited for clarity.

frognibble2• 17 years ago

This happened in late 2005.

emhc2• 17 years ago

Also, notice that they have not updated libjingle in over 2 years. They should include some sort of statement about the status of the project. It's my understanding that it won't even compile without work but I could be wrong there.

grandalf• 17 years ago

When I saw this headline I thought maybe they'd introduced automatic code formatting / syntax highlighting into the IM client. That would be huge.

(I guess someone could write that pretty easily)...

omfut• 17 years ago

This is such a old news. When i read the heading, was really very curious. Anyway nothing new here. Its been such a long time since i played around with libjingle and xmpp.

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