Re: [Ekiga-list] configuration

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi John,

Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 09:52 +0000, John Hawley a écrit :
> Thanks very much for your suggestion but minicom and similar text based 
> devices have now been supplanted with sms, and IM both of which are poor 
> substitutes for face to face talking.
> 
> The irritating thing is that we have used skype video calling for this 
> purpose for 3 or 4 years (with varying degrees of success) but the trend 
> for ever increasing camera resolution is outstripping bandwidth 
> resulting very good quality pictures but at a transmission rate 
> inadequate for lip-reading purposes. Perhaps I should clarify that by 
> bandwidth, I mean upload bandwidth, whereas download bandwidth has 
> steadily increased over the last few years, (currently because its 
> copper wires into the house its 8Meg), upload bandwidth has remained at 
> 250k thus end to end video is at 250K! UK ISPs appear to have no 
> interest in increasing this number!
> 
> What I'm trying to achieve is to force all/most of that available 
> bandwidth into video stream and Ekiga would at least seem to offer that 
> prospect.


Hello John,

Matthias tells this :

Ekiga 3.00 will bring all the features necessary for a high-framerate
communication like described by you. This will be made possible by
hardware acceleration of the video output (on linux via
XVideo, on windows with DirectDraw). Also, with Ekiga 3.00's new codecs
you will still get a very good quality even at low bitrates. I would
recommend trying out both theora and H.264 (needs more
CPU , but offers more quality) for this. It should be easy to setup
Ekiga, just more the slider to Frame Rate preference and enter you
uplink bitrate (bitrate, not byterate). There are some other
things that could be tweaked, but for me it works very well out of the
box. In case we would need some more configuration, it would be great to
continue this discussion on the ekiga-devel-list, since we are talking
about the latest development load. You can get the latest state from
ekiga's svn trunk repository. 

Matthias

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