Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] High resolutions with H.264

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Haeernilion wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, I'd like to thank everyone contributing to developing this
> great application and I hope to be able to contribute myself in the near
> future. A few weeks ago, I namely started working on a students project,
> which consists in upgrading Ekiga to permit videoconferencing at higher
> resolutions (960x720 or above) over a LAN or a fiber optic connection. In
> order to achieve this goal, I decided to focus on the recently added CELT
> codec and the H.264 codec for audio and video transmission since they turn
> out to provide best results.

Hi,

Very interesting analysis.  Unfortunately, I cannot help much...

Just a question: wouldn't be better to use the free theora codec instead 
of the non-free h264 (unavailable on some gnu/linux distributions)? 
Also, I have done some *empirical* tests with ekiga and theora turned 
out to be a bit better than h264 at 640x480 (still I am not specialist 
of codecs).

Eugen