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Skype vs SIP

Skype vs SIP

Posted Jul 16, 2009 3:52 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: Skype vs SIP by hingo
Parent article: Identi.ca pushes forward

Happily, Jabber clients can soon provide a free and open replacement for Skype. Google Talk is audio-interoperable with any clients that use libjingle (currently, Empathy and the Nokia N8x0 IM client), and all of them support the free Speex codec.

Video is another matter, as Google Talk uses only H.264, but Empathy and the Nokia client support video calls between each other too.


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Skype vs SIP

Posted Jul 16, 2009 9:15 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

For Jabber/XMPP implementations, just give me this distributed chat synchronization like the one I get using Skype. Before that, it is just not worth discussing.

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