Re: Better Video Codecs - was Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] ideas..

[JGJones <mailgroups bluecheetah biz>]

"Indeed, and OpenH323 has support for H.263 through FFMPEG."

I'm a little confused. One of the main videoconf client I make calls to 
are DLink DVC-1000.

They only support H.263 for video's (not H.261 or H.264)

Yet everytime I call them I am unable to see their video, nor they are 
able to see my video because they're using H.263 and GnomeMeeting (via 
OpenH323 doesn't have H.263 - as far as I can see from OpenH323's page 
is that they only do H.261 and no higher for video?

If OpenH323 can encode H.263 then how can I setup GnomeMeeting so taht I 
can send H.263 video's? This is the bare minimum I need.

Thanks

JGJones

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Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > Well, ffmpeg is LGPL which means that you can link it as a library. Check out
> > ther legal pages http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/legal.php
>
>
> Indeed, and OpenH323 has support for H.263 through FFMPEG.
>
>
> > Having compiled ffmpeg a while ago, I remember, that there is a "GPL" compile
> > option which means, that it disables all codecs which are non LGPL compatiple.
> > I wonder what's the case with H.263 (which would be a quantum leap to have it-
> > though it's not 264)
> >
> > I also wonder how the Wengo guys and java sip-communicator folks solved their
> > legal problems concerning 263. (these are open source projects as well - some
> > GPL)
>
>
> I wonder. In Europe, you are relatively safe. The best would be to have
> support for video plugins, which means european could use the plugin and
> americans would have to pay for it, or not use it at all.
>
>
> > Another idea, which would solve point 1 and 3 but not 2 above: use Theora.
> > Check this out: http://www.tipic.com/tipicim - it's an open source Video
> > Jabber messenger using Theora as video codec. Perhaps opal/Gnomemeeting could
> > benefit. This would do to video what Speex did for audio - a decent free
> > codec.
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> > Conrad
> >
> >
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