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The Farstream (formerly Farsight) project is an effort to create
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a framework to deal with all known audio/video conferencing protocols.
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On one side it offers a generic API that makes it possible to write
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plugins for different streaming protocols, on the other side it
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offers an API for clients to use those plugins.
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The main target clients for Farstream are Instant Messaging
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applications. These applications should be able to use Farstream
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for all their Audio/Video conferencing needs without having to
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worry about any of the lower level streaming and NAT traversal
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issues.
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Farstream forms an integral part of the Telepathy framework. It is
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used by Empathy through the Telepathy-Farstream library. The
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Telepathy-Farstream library binds it to the Connection Managers
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via D-Bus and the Telepathy Media Stream Spec and is used for all
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their streaming requirements.
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