video conference chatting

What is the procedure to invite users for video chatting and allow them as well as myself to view live video streaming from webcam ?do i have to provide my ip address and access their ip address to acces开发者_JAVA技巧s the webcam?what are the network protocals to be used? couldnt find myself any relevant links and resources. would be happy if i get any pointers related to this?i am developing asp.net web application with silverlight using c#.

thank you

Please try these links. hope it helps to an extent

P2P streaming- MSDN

Voice Chat - Codeproject

Silverlight + WCF

Similar question here? Architecture of chatroulette

AFAIK ChatRoulette uses a new set of API's in Flash Player 10.1 codenamed Stratus, which allows for peer-to-peer connections between Flash Player instances.

So instead of the video and audio streams being pushed up to a special streaming server, like FMS or Red5 unique ID's are shared and peers connect directly to each other.

This has great possibilities to reduce server load for live streaming of events where 1 connection to a server stream can be shared between near neighbours.

Can you imagine the hosting bills for something like ChatRoulette if Stratus wasn't pushing the streams directly between the peers?!

If you're interested in knowing more check out Stratus' section on Adobe lads: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

Maybe there is a similar technology in silverlight?