Re: Free software streaming

[Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org>]

On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:41 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 15:46 +0100, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote:
> > Hey, you did not react to Nicolas Dufresne's suggestion of using
> > webrtc ?
> > Services like appear.in do not require installing extra software,
> > as
> > most
> > of the heavy lifting is already done by modern browsers ( I'm sure
> > someone
> > will implement support in emacs at some point :) ).
>
> I agree, WebRTC is clearly the winning technology and the way to go
> in
> the future.
>
> It's not true that all modern browsers support it, though, so I don't
> think it's fair to start using it quite yet. The implementation in
> WebKit, for example, is still buggy and disabled in both WebKitGTK+
> and
> Safari. That needs fixed before we start using it for GNOME events,
> else people won't be able to participate with the GNOME web
> browser....

That is the spirit! Although, we had extensions that did not work on
the GNOME Web browser either.

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Germán Poo-Caamaño
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