[sauravkp]

Hi Everyone,
I have bought a Raspberry Pi model B+ and using it as a personal media centre powered by OpenElec XBMC connected to my Bravia. I am loving every bit of it.
The only thing I am missing is an one touch video conferencing app like FaceTime on my iPhone. I did an extensive search in internet to find out if something is readily available but i didn't find any such app. (Please let me know if anything is readily available to be used with xbmc, so that i don't have to do it by myself)
As I didn't find anything ,I am planning to build one such app using all open source technologies. My plan is to use WebRTC for peer to peer connection and QML for developing a WebRTC client in XBMC.
I found this video on youtube where some guys have developed one such videoconferencing application using qtmediahub.
video conferencing using qtmediahub


Am I at the correct starting point ? what are the things I should consider before starting work?

Please suggest/advice.

[bdubu]

I for one would love to see this implemented as well. Considering that most of us XBMC'ers have before us a large flat-panel TV, what could be more natural than to initiate/accept video calls direct from the XBMC GUI itself? The only alternative is to run XBMC on a full O/S (such as Linux Mint which BTW I much prefer over using my rPi simply because it enables seamless access to ALL of the installed apps -- including a browser -- just by pressing the "\" key on my keyboard from within XBMC). Also, keep in mind that in addition to Skype and other standalone video conferencing apps, there are a number of browser-based WebRTC apps out there that could provide the functionality you want but again, you'd likely have to run XBMC from a full O/S in order to benefit.

[ironic_monkey]

qml and kodi is not gonna fly, there is no qt usage in kodi. you have to build the ui using the kodi bindings.

this sounds doable as a script (python).