Re: Video conferencing application

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

Dear Valessio,

Thanks a lot! I have forwarded your suggestion to the Taiwan GUG and 
they will try it out. If we cannot find a good video conferencing tool, 
we should definitely use video streaming instead.

Cheers,
Pockey

On 12/23/2010 04:10 AM, Valessio S Brito wrote:
> Hi all,
> sorry my english...
>
> I'm participating in another thread looking for a solution to this.
>
> Among some proposals, like the OpenMeettings.de[1] [2]
>
> But like the idea of a friend aka 'Lucasa' (in CC):
> - Create a page that automatically generates thumbnails on HTML5, all 
> videos sent to a "Icecast" for guests.
> Anyone can make a stream with VLC or Landell[3], sending an icecast 
> which someone calls (provides access to data).
>
> With 'Landell' is very simple to stream your webcam, is something I 
> believe very much in the future be a software for the Gnome web 
> channels and provide access to streaming video.
>
>
> [1] http://openmeetings.de
> [2] code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
> [3] http://br.gnome.org/Landell/EnSobreLandell
>
>
> Citando Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Yeah, we would definitely use video conferencing (and / or 
> > broadcasting tool) to connect events from different venues around the 
> > world.
> >
> > What we have tested so far:
> >
> > Ekiga -- cannot even make one on one video chat on the same network, 
> > sip calls didn't work, and the only thing that we managed to get 
> > working is voice in the conference room. just wonder if anybody made 
> > Ekiga video chat work? what's the trick?
> >
> > Tested some online services on Firefox or Chromium, Linux:
> >
> > 1) dimdim.com -- new plugin (they say it's compulsory) doesn't work 
> > on Firefox Linux => for free / trial account.  not able to make even 
> > one on one work
> > 2) webhuddle.com -- only support voice and we cannot make it work
> > 3) Yugma -- "invite contact" doesn't work on Linux
> >
> > We are also testing and sourcing a reliable video / sound 
> > broadcasting tool as well:
> >
> > bigbluebutton --- cannot detect my camera, I guess it's a flash issue...
> >
> > Pockey
> >
> > On 12/16/2010 03:04 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org 
> > > <mailto:pockeylam gnome org>> wrote:
> > >
> > >    Dear Dave, Diego, Joey, Sriam,
> > >
> > >    Thank you for your help! I already gave all the suggestions to the
> > >    Taiwan GUG members and asked them to do some testing. Will keep
> > >    you posted of the result. Besides, they will definitely let us
> > >    know if they need further help!
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Pockey, if you find something that works please do let us 
> > > know as I'm sure that other would be interested in doing something 
> > > similar.
> > >
> > > sri
> > >
> > >
> > >    Thanks,
> > >    Pockey
> > >
> > >
> > >    On 12/15/2010 07:55 AM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> > >
> > >        El mar, 14-12-2010 a las 19:13 +0100, Joey Ferwerda escribió:
> > >
> > >            What about just using Gtalk?
> > >
> > >            Its not open source, but it is free software!
> > >
> > >        I guess you meant voice/video over jabber, which is what gtalk
> > >        uses and
> > >        what Empathy can also do.
> > >
> > >        Empathy can work fine for this I guess. But likely telepathy
> > >        developers
> > >        can suggest something else. Maybe even a hardcoded program
> > >        only for this
> > >        event. AFAIK there was work on multiuser video chat.
> > >
> > >
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