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Are video calls also P2P?

Can video conference calls be placed?

If not, does there exist existing FOSS that does conference calls on a P2P network?

Edit: It appears TURN is used.



Yes, Jami calls are p2p whenever possible, and TURN is used when not (e.g. due to overly restrictive firewalls).

Yes, Jami supports conferencing. One can add additional participants to a 1-on-1 call on the fly, effectively making it a conference. Alternatively, one can enable rendezvous mode from account settings, in which case incoming calls to that account will be added to a conference (similar to a Jisti room).


Amazing. Are there any optimizations for video conferencing in case one participant doesn't have upload bandwidth to stream his video to 10 different IP addresses at once?

I was fidgeting with the tought of something like a overlay multicast network on top of unicast IP, since RFC 1770 was deprecated/never implemented.


Right. In Jami by default only the host of a conference/rendezvous-point will stream to/from all peers and mix their streams, and other peers normally only stream to/from the conference host. Also Jami can automatically adjust the call's bitrate on the fly depending on the link quality:

https://docs.jami.net/user/faq.html#how-much-bandwidth-do-i-...

Hope this helps. :)


Nice! Thank you for the link!




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