Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Hi! Reg Gnomemeeting and Familiar.



I missed one more question.....
You suggest, Gnomemeeting has issues with video when
trying to connect to  windows
netmeeting, but does it have any such known issues if all clients
do run Gnomemeeting?

Thanks
Lakshmi

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, lakshminarasimhan wrote:

> Hi Kilian,
> Thanks for your response.
>
> By MCU, I would assume that its a MultiPoint Control unit.
> I see a lots of hardware based MCUs.
> Do we have any software based MCUs?
> Any pointers to applications, esp opensources would be helpful.
>
> If we do support software based MCUs how good (err bad)
> is the performance?
>
> You were also suggesting that we need a Full Duplex driver
> for audio/video I would assume. Correct? If thats
> the case, I need to check the hardware specs of PDA that
> we plan to buy.
>
> Also does software CODECS come bundled with the Gnomemeeting?
>
> And one last question, what would you think is a minimal
> hardware requirements for a IP Videoconferencing thats
> using software CODECS, software MCUs(if thats available
> and I await response from you all) on a Compaq HP H5xxx
> series? Will it fly; forgetting about performance and marketing :)
>
> Thanks
> Lakshmi
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Kilian Krause wrote:
>
> > Hi Lakshmi,
> >
> > > 1) I see that Gnomemeeting is similar to Netmeeting supported
> > > in Linux.
> > >
> > > I would like to know whether VideoConferencing is possible
> > > through this and how easy it is to port the application
> > > to Familiar distribution of Linux. But I am atleast
> > > sure that GnomeMeeting should atleast support VOIP.
> >
> > GM can do connection to NM in most cases.. there's some video size issue
> > which can't be reproduced properly, so let's put it: "it works with NM"
> >
> > > 2) Can multiple sites do Netmeeting or Videoconferencing through
> > >    this? or is it only point-to-point.
> >
> > GM alone is Point-2-Point, but you can make use of MCUs if you have some
> > around your net..
> >
> > > 3) Are there any readily available supported applications
> > >    (For IP VideoConferencing) with Familiar release in this regard.
> >
> > nope, there is no binary for "Familiar" Linux as far as i know.. that's
> > a release question to the "Familiar" release maintainer you should pose
> > though..
> >
> > largest problem is, we need a working Full Duplex Driver ;)
> > and with most cards only ALSA will be working sufficiently well...
> >
> > > 4) how easy it is to port applications from Linux to Familiar
> > > embedded linux?
> >
> > that's none of our business, really ;)
> > so you should yet again ask the release maintainer of "Familiar" Linux
> > about this one.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >  Kilian
> >
>
>




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