Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Some news of the development

[Auzie Morgan <auzie auzievision com>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:50:29AM -0800, Auzie Morgan wrote:
> > Damien Sandras wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:19:46AM -0800, Auzie Morgan wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > Well darn, but ok as I ween computer off windows dependacies Ill make 
> > sure I get my
> > little brother into doing the patch..
> >
> > Winov Videum cards? I think the author of the driver tried to take a 
> > look at this but I
> > noticed in the past it didn't get much posted about it.  This may seem 
> > sad but I have an
> > old USR Big picture card that really doesn't like the new bttv driver, 
> > and I have a winov
> > board.. I suppose I could pick up another webcam ( gave my dlink to the 
> > family so they
> > could video conf with us), but I already have two capture boards..
> >       
>
> You are not the only one to report problems with the Winnov Videum Card.
> I think that the video part of PWLib that gnomemeeting uses to open, close
> and capture the card should be rewritten and use code from xawtv. That should
> give compatibility with all cards that work with xawtv...
>
> Perhaps I'll work on this one day, but I still have many things I want
> to see implemented into GM before that...
>       
I understand but atleast its being approached..
> > My bttv gets huge lag initialzing, and winov doesn't seem to get picked 
> > up right by GM..
> >           
>           
          
Any ideas on why the USR BigPicture cards are such a pain on the new bttv.o
driver? I tried 
several tips in the docs on it but nothing seemed to get it to init quicker..
Like takes 5 minutes..
Yet windows works fine.. and I use to use this card back in the 2.2 days..
with little trouble..
> > > > Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all :)
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm sending some news of the development. We have worked a lot on the
> > > > > next release of GnomeMeeting which is still not ready. It will take
> > > > > about one more month till the next release, but the CVS will still be
> > > > > feature-full in a few days. It has taken a longer time to do this
> > > > > release because of Christmas, New Year, because I had to prepare my talk
> > > > > for the Linux Expo in Paris, and I'm also one of the organisators of the
> > > > > FOSDEM (see http://www.fosdem.org); I hope to see some of you at this
> > > > > event.
> > > > >
> > > > > What will be new in 0.13 ?
> > > > >
> > > > > - Basic text Chat support with the remote party (thanks to Roger for the
> > > > > ideas and the changes in ohphone)
> > > > > - Ability to change all options on the fly during calls (we made small
> > > > > patches that Robert of Equivalence included into their CVS, I really
> > > > > want to thank him for that)
> > > > > - Gconf support 
> > > > > - Imp
> > > > > roved Gatekeeper support
> > > > > - New LDAP browser (Miguel Rodriguez should work on it)
> > > > > - New icons thanks to the work of Jakub Steiner (yes, the guy who drew
> > > > > the wonderful Gnome icons, nautilus icons, evolution icons, ...) Thanks
> > > > > a lot again.
> > > > > - XDAP support thanks to Paul Ashton (Ability to register correctly to
> > > > > all ILS directories and to LDAP servers)
> > > > > - Call forwarding support
> > > > > - Any other feature that you would like to propose or implement ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > This release will take a longer time to work, as Im also working a lot
> > > > > for the FOSDEM in my free time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to all of you who report bugs and encourage me to continue. We
> > > > > try to innovate to bring you a better product :-)
> > > > >
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