Re: [Ekiga-list] Setting up a videophone (from scratch)

["Rene Bartsch" <ML Bartschnet de>]

>     I have an application; a person walks up to the Linux box, presses a
> button and (after a sec, with some pretty graphics) a person's face
comes up and we're talking to someone we're also seeing.
>
>     This shouldn't be hard, the idea is to make this "manual free" at
> all times. With this background, here's the question:
>
>     How hard is it to open a communication with a remote person
> (probably on an Asterix PBX built for this purpose) to make the call
_from_an_icon_ or other no-brainer construct?
>
>     Ekiga is a great tool, even better than it was as GnomeMeeting, but
> I need something less flexible (to the user) and more simple, too. Is
that something that's done without source code?
>


It's some kind of overkill, but Asterisk has video support for the oss
console channel. I don't know which version you need, or even CVS version,
but I've read about a patch added some month ago.

Renne