[GnomeMeeting-list] Keep H.323 but avoid Netmeeting!

[Alan Sill <Alan Sill ttu edu>]

Hi,

Lot of discussion on this list by people who want to use NetMeeting 
with their openh323 systems.  Note that the performance of Netmeeting 
is sufficient to drag down video quality and even lock up H.323 
conferences, so this is a bad idea.  If people want to include Windows 
users in their conferences, they should use inexpensive hardware-codec 
camera solutions like the Polycom ViaVideo, etc.  GnomeMeeting on a 
reasonably recent fast Linux box works fine, especially if you are 
running your video through a hardware capture card, but avoid allowing 
Netmeeting users to connect to your conferences.

See http://www.es.net under "conferencing" for more details...

Alan

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