Re:Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device
by swiley on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:48AM
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I feel like if I had to video conference with one of my friends running Linux we would just use ffmpeg and ffplay.
It probably wouldn't be anymore reliable than all the other conference software but at least it doesn't drag a mountain of bullshit and lockin with it.
We just use email and in person meetings though, I still don't quite get the point behind video conferencing.
Re:Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device
by kalleboo on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:11AM
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My problem with video/audio chat solutions has never been the hardware, generally it can be chalked up to flaky networking somewhere along the line to one of the participants - solutions were usually rebooting a home router or switching to 3G/4G. Best effort packet networking is just not ideal for real-time streams.
It is 2017 and I don't know of any video conference system or software that "just works" everywhere, all the time, under all bandwidth conditions. If Facebook thinks they can pull this off by tight control on hardware, they will sell like hotcakes.