Skype videoconferencing integration development

Looks like this could be an amazing addition!

Liking this idea! Would really be a winner in my house. Only thing with these custom builds is that I use the HD-Audio builds atm and for both this and Spotify, discreet builds are needed!

As I'm crap at compiling stuff (it just never seems to work) is there any kind of tool that you can just pick the elements you need and have the support all compiled into your own personal build?

If not, pretty please can you build in Spotify support and HD-Audio?

Hi,

skype add-on for XBMC sounds great

What is the current development status of skype implantation in XBMC??
Will be XBMC-skype git repository public available again?
I hope the Skype license will be not a big problem

Regards,
superbaton

Just wanted to give a heads up, The Google+ Hangouts API is out of preview mode, and may allow for more functionality now.

http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2...ut-of.html

It would be great if someone with the knowledge is interested in!

any update on development on this

Sorry but I think Skype (or similar) integration into XBMC would be a game changer.... Like Facebook was a game changer.

Imagine you are sitting in your living room with your wife and kids. You are watching a movie, or listening to music. And ring, my sister halfway around the world calls and we can all visit in the living room as if we were together in the same room. BEYOND COOL.

The only thing I can help with is offering some possible names to the whole thing...I like:

DropBy
ComeOver
Hangout
VisiX

The only other thing remaining would be to integrate a cable tuner into XBMC and something that would turn on (via IR) your TV and your Receiver (surround sound system) if it detects a call coming in... then you hear a smooth sexy voice saying "Maria is calling...". In the future you have a giant 12,800p screen on one wall in your living room, and you and your remote friends can split screen watch a movie or TV show together and look at each other and comment along... That would be REAL social media.

Sorry, just dreaming about the future. But guys please keep up the good work.

Hi there,

Hows the progress coming along on this? Are there any plans to release your current code via SVN or Github?

Thanks

(2012-03-05 00:24)amitn Wrote:  Hi rflores2323

Regarding making this project a plugin for XBMC, we looked into it but found too many limitations some which we did not find ways around therefore we have decided to go along the route that we have.
At the moment the XBMC core doesn't support the video rendering that we need to make Skype and Google Talk work from an addon.

I absolutely agree with you that it would be best practice (and best solution) to create an addon and not have to create a new build of XBMC and we would have done so if we had found a workaround to deal with the limitations we have encountered.

I would love to have an API for Video / Voice conversation in the XBMC core, same as PVR, but at the moment it seems a bit to big of a project for us over here.

I will appreciate if some one from the XBMC dev team could comment on that.

We still need to make some bugfix in Skype and to complete some task to compli with SkypeKit distribution terms (I hope you are not from China) but I think that we will have a version to distribute quite soon.

In any case we are working in parallel on a Google Talk integration but nothing that we can show at the moment, Google Talk integration will be much more easy to distribute and if the XBMC dev team would like to merge it upstream that would be great.

I would like to believe that the effort we are putting in to this project is not in vain and the XBMC community could enjoy form it. May be some of the changes will be merge upstream to the official XBMC build when it is mature enough.

If you want to contribute you are more than welcome.


Amit

rflores2323 Wrote:Shanee, go to the plugin subforum and post up there. There are stickies up there that can help you get started making an addon

Dev Plugin/Addon Subforum

Also this is looking awesome. Man o Man I cant wait to show my friends/fam. They are going to flip.

Two months have passed by. Has this project died?

Skype on my tv via remote control would be amazing.

Hello!!'
The same question than other, this project is a really good one, do you always work on it. It will be very nice to have some news!