Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Windows Netmeeting compatibility

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:03:13AM +1100, Jeff Mills wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I dont see the logic in branching a project off into separate 
> apps when it would be much better for everyone involved if everyone worked 
> together on it.

I agree with you. The developer of the KDE project is in fact very kind, but
helping me or creating 2 GUIs on the same app would perhaps have been more
useful.

> 
> On a side note.... one of GnomeMeetings drawbacks is the fact that it uses 
> alot more bandwidth than NetMeeting due to proprietary codecs.
> 
> Now that DivX is open source... is it possible for someone to produce a new 
> codec using the compression that DivX can give?
> I might be way off track here, but I thought DivX was a huge leap in the 
> compression of video.
> Will it not work with cameras? Will it not be good enough? Can it not be done?
> 

Well, it is possible. It is even possible to use proprietary codecs through 
libwine (or somthing so, like in aviplay) would work, I suppose (don't know if it is legal or not).
As for OpenDivx, I don't think that it would give a good bandwidth for gnomemeeting,
however, we will work in 0.14 to add CU30 support. That will be difficult 
because CU30 needs to collect stats every time that you change a device setting.

If somebody wants to think a bit more about the codec problem, he is welcome.


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