What users (and admins) actually want.

RyanWenke · none Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 32

I always see people telling others that you need a certain something about your network to stand out from the others. An IRC network should be unique in order to be successful, and should offer something different.

My question to you is, name/list some things you would love to see on a network. I want to see if anyone has ideas that might better enhance their (and others) experience. This could be add-ons to IRCd's/services as well.

Thank you

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1065

an irc network that supports a streaming video protocol in the same fashion that DCC is supported.

Telume · none Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 12

I'd have to agree with katsklaw on that one, but it'd be better to have a live stream of a sports event or something like that on IRC too.

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1065

if it worked as suggested it wouldn't be on IRC. DCC is not covered in the IRC protocol. It is a seperate protocol that simply makes the client connection. DCC has nothing to do with IRC directly. Neither does streaming video, you just need a good protocol, an ircd that can support said protocol and a client or DDE driven external application for the video stream. All the ircd would do in this case is simply pass the video stream request from one client to another then back out of the conversation. Just like DCC does.

In fact, I don't see why the ircd needs to support the protocol, DCC can handle the request. To be honest any video player than has a cmd line api can do this. mIRC Script for one example is verse enough to send the incoming video url to the default media player.

1> client sends a request on IRC to the client streaming the video
2> streaming client sends connection info back to the requesting client via DCC
3> DDE driven steaming video client navigates to the given URL.
4> watch and enjoy.

Webcams could be a bit harder to support since they can bi-directional.