Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] problems with gnomemeeting 1.2.1 and netmeeting on xp

[Alan Sill <Alan Sill ttu edu>]

On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:00 AM, gnomemeeting-list-request gnome org wrote:

> In any case, I would strongly suggest to use MyPhone (myphone.sf.net)
> instead of netmeeting on the windows side. Netmeeting is unconfigurable
> behind NAT.

Netmeeting has been dropped and is not even supported by Microsoft any 
more.  There are MANY low-cost and free alternatives to netmeeting on 
Windows (XP and otherwise) -- we have banned netmeeting for some time 
from the multi-institution H.323 system that we use, and actively 
discourage (i.e. completely forbid) its use, as it is famous for 
causing problems for other clients that are connected.

My favorite suggestion for Windoews users is to get a hardware 
codec-based unit such as the Polycom ViaVideo (now on revision II) -- 
but lately there have been users reporting configuraion difficulties 
with the PVX application that has come out to replace the previous 
Polycom-supplied ViaVideo software.  All of these seem to have gone 
away with sufficient fiddling, and I did not keep track of the settings 
needed, but offer the above just as a caveat.

Alan