Using Farstream for videoconferencing
I see a lot of comments about Gstreamer videoconferencing abilities, so I want to continue this topic and say a few words about the Farstream project. Gstreamer is the one of Collabora's flagship projects. This company is developing other projects based on Gstreamer, and Farstream is exact project for audio and video conferencing. With Farstream, businesses can easily create a multi-platform, multi-user audio/video conference solution that supports a wide range of codecs. Simply put, Farstream (formerly Farsight) is an advanced VoIP/video streaming engine capable of dealing with all known audio/video conferencing protocols. Quote from the project description: Philippe Kalaf began the Farstream project in 2005. He was aiming to create a simple-to-use framework that implemented multiple audio/video streaming protocols. Most of the initial work on Farstream focused on the protocol agnostic API and the RTP plugin. Over the years, the RTP plugin has matured into a very c...