I am in the process of trying to find an opensource peer 2 peer webcam chat which uses PHP and not red5 or media server. I found http://www.peer2peer-chat.com/ but this is not very user friendly im sure there are more out there but cannot find any Any help would be greatly appreciated! I just need a chat room where you can use webcam too. Thanks!
You can do p2p connections with Flash which won't require a media server. There's also WebRTC which is still VERY new and not widely supported yet. Personally I would just go with Red5. It's not that complicated.
I have done a lot of research on this too and could not find a good php script for this use. But there are a lot of server based (red5 and other media servers) services available. Anyhow, here is a link to minimally priced script http://www.photonchat.com/ (I did not like it after testing their demo, but I placed this link here for others to see what other options are available). Hopefully someone will reply with some useful info.
do you need dedicated hosting to run flash5? and Thanks nhed for the input I will have a look at photonchat
can see it in action here http://unic.am very easy to implement! I managed to implement it with facebook login
P2P highly depends on various ISP and client network settings and often does not work or involves huge latency. A media server is much more reliable and works fine for most users.