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Re:Firefox Hello by pnathan on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:01PM (#8963432)
I am bummed - I was hoping it was just straight up peer to peer video. Why do we need an intermediary?
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Re:Firefox Hello by johntb86 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @08:24PM (#8963783)
Computers behind some types of NATs can't use peer-to-peer video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...
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Re:Firefox Hello by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:36PM (#8963600)
To give the clients a simple way to initiate their peer-to-peer session?
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Re:Firefox Hello by rdtsc on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @10:17PM (#8964123)
How does your browser plan on accessing or seeing its "peers"?
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Re:Firefox Hello by tedmielczarek on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:59PM (#8968125)
It's using WebRTC which is peer-to-peer for the actual audio/video streams, you just need some kind of intermediary to exchange SDPs to connect in the first place. (There are some examples of clever workarounds for this, like copying and pasting SDP strings over IM, but they're not a good user experience.)
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