[linux-audio-user] fighting skype ...

[Bengt Gördén]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 05:42:48PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> 
> > Skype doesn't have any SIP gateways as far as I
> > know, though they're supposed to offer something called
> > "SkypeIn" this summer to do that.
> 
> they did a protocol of their own, and they will never publish 
> it, I guess...
> 
> > Personally, I'd rather 
> > just avoid them altogether, as it seems what they've
> > brought to the mix is primarily marketing.
> 
> Their protocol has the advantage that it works very well even 
> on low bandwith connections.

I'm reading another list that discusses research in the networking e2e
area. According to a very recent discussion on that list skype is
probably using iLBC (RFC 3951) as a codec.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3951.txt


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