chat/farstream 0.2.9nb30 NetBSD

The Farstream (formerly Farsight) project is an effort to create a framework to deal with all known audio/video conferencing protocols. On one side it offers a generic API that makes it possible to write plugins for different streaming protocols, on the other side it offers an API for clients to use those plugins.

The main target clients for Farstream are Instant Messaging applications. These applications should be able to use Farstream for all their Audio/Video conferencing needs without having to worry about any of the lower level streaming and NAT traversal issues.

Farstream forms an integral part of the Telepathy framework. It is used by Empathy through the Telepathy-Farstream library. The Telepathy-Farstream library binds it to the Connection Managers via D-Bus and the Telepathy Media Stream Spec and is used for all their streaming requirements.