[mahyarm]

I'm surprised you guys don't use OTR for secure text chat that will interop with other OTR text chat clients.

You guys should really look into the WebRTC project ( http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/ ) so you don't re-invent the wheel with video conferencing with just raw ffmpeg. You could also make web browser clients in the future possibly. It takes quite a bit of QoS and other work to make video conferencing work right! Take advantage of the PhDs that google & co hire and re-use their full time jobs!