Re: [Ekiga-list] Dont need ekiga, got vln

["RazaMetaL | Only The Good Die Young" <razametal gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> jamesmikedupont googlemail com wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>> it turns out I dont need ekiga,
>> now I have my own video streaming solution with vlc,
>> and it just works!
>>
>> http://rdfintrospector2.blogspot.com/2009/04/firewire-vlc-streaming.html
>
> Glad to see that it works for you.  Your solution and ekiga calls are
> however not really the same thing.
>
> For ex., your solution is unidirectional, ekiga is bidirectional.  ekiga has
> presence support, vlc not.  ekiga can call classical phones, vlc not.  There
> is no echo cancelling.  Etc. etc.
>
> On the other hand, vlc knows many codecs and many resolutions (not sure
> though).  You can save streams.  You can broadcast (directly, maybe in ekiga
> too?) and so on.
>


For videostreaming you can use icecast with tss [1] as source client.


[1] http://gollum.artefacte.org/tss/



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