[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 5 year plan & Inovation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 05:55:04PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, at 17:22, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > * ffchat
> >> >  (expand into realtime chat / zoom) this would
> >> >  bring in more users and developers, and we basically have almost
> >> >
> >> 
> >> Better leave that for others.
> >> There's an infinite amount of discord clones already.
> >
> > iam not following that genre that much ...
> > so let me ask
> > are there any that
> > * preserve privacy (discord is not secure/private)
> > * allow audio / video / text chat
> > * scalable
> > * need no central server
> 
> Matrix? Elements? Mattermost? Rocket.chat? Jitsi?

These seem quite complex systems

Matrix says "(optional) end-to-end encryption" which for me is a fail

https://jitsi.org/security/
nicely explains their security. And i agree that anything running
primarely in a browser controlled by google cannot provide security/privacy

what i had in mind with ffchat initially was a much simpler system
simply something where 2+ people could connect and communicate with
video and audio (text being easy to add).

The complexity of ffchat would be more between /doc/examples and
ffplay.
My basic idea was that people would be identified by their public key
hash + DNS name. And then just setup a connection in a ffplay like
interface.
Its a good example on how to use our libs in a realtime chat app
and it allows us to grow it if we want at any time

thx

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