[Asterisk-Users] PSGW 2.2 Skype gateway?

[Francesco Peeters]

On Fri, November 18, 2005 11:14, Alejandro Vargas said:
> 2005/11/17, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com>:
>> Call quality is ok, but it seems to add considerable latency. I suspect
>> that the call is fully decoded back to analogue (or maybe not quite
>> that far) on one of the audio devices in the OS, then encoded into SIP
>> for the outbound leg. That would imply additional delay in all cases.
>
> It uses the skype api, then is the api (the skype propietary client)
> who decodes the sound (adding some latency). Then the sip part may be
> including some extra latency. It sould use a low latency codec,
> compression is not needed in a local machine...
>
> But there is a big problem with this program: it needs windows to run,
> adding failure point to the circuit... and then needing of an extra
> machine only for acting as gateway: bad solution.
>
> I think we will need to wait until someone hacked the skype
> protocol... If there is someone interested on doing it.
>
>

Which is going to be a pain, as it is encrypted...  :-(

Reverse-engineering may be the best option, and that is:
1) Not trivial
2) Not always legal

/me sighs...

I'll try getting my friends on to VoipBuster instead!  ;-)

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