If I may suggest, why go to all of this trouble?

Just make a client that registers with a webpage, ala ninjam.  (For those of you not hip to ninjam, it is a collaborative jam-session program and each instance can "phone home" to show the user's presence on a webpage).

In the case of local networks, advertise with avahi / mdns and be done. No need to attach to an IM service or XMPP.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:13 PM, <torbenh@gmx.de> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:36:18AM +0100, Sebastian Moors wrote:
> torbenh@gmx.de wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> >
> > but setting up the connection, and getting IP addresses
> > of users is still a PITA.
> > i am thinking along the lines of an IM like thing,
> > based on jabber.
> >
> > i am not seeing good options to making this available
> > in the various IM clients.
> > thats why i would rather like to have modified jabberd running
> > on jackaudio.org or at the consortium servers.
> >
> >
> > and starts the netjack session.
> >
> > thoughts ?
> >
> Jabber would be a fine choice. You could use the xmpppy library and
> write a small client which runs on your system and talks to other
> clients with a predefined ascii or xml
> protocol. No need to hack the server, imho. The data can be wrapped in
> the jabber messages. I could give a helping hand here if someone wants
> to implement this app since i wrote some bots and a xmpppy tutorial 2
> years ago.

ok... would be apreciated. I am gonna implement this.

but i am currently trying to fix netjack for the case,
where packet loss is around 50% ie. link bandwidth is not
enough.

in fact i was thinking about using xmpppy.


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