cHat
by Bram, Stef and Michael
This is a simple chat client with video and audio chat options.
It is currently early alpha and requires two dynamic libraries to be installed:
- OpenCV --> http://opencv.org
- PortAudio --> http://www.portaudio.com
The whole thing is written in C and should compile on any system with those libraries installed.
Compile chat client (chat) in the hackathon directory with
gcc chat.c -o chat -lncurses -portaudio `pkg-config --cflags --libs opencv`
Compile server (chatd) with
gcc chatd.c -o chatd
Compile video server (chatd-vid) with
gcc chatd-vid.c -o chatd-vid
Plans
- Complete rewrite (see pre-alpha)
- Stabilize video refreshing
- Standardize to P2P (already done in audio)
- Write a standardized protocol for sending color data along with image data
- Responsive video display
- Decentralized userbase/discovery
- Encryption