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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 17.04.2024 20:22, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 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.

That sounds a bit like re-inventing Tox.
Which sadly seems a bit dead.