Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting Snapshot 1.9.0-20060108 CIF Video

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm caldwell ntu edu au>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:30 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hi Kilian,
> 
> Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 �2:20 +0100, Kilian Krause a �it :
> > Hi Damien,
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2006, 10:02 +0100 schrieb Damien Sandras:
> > > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 �0:48 +0930, Malcolm Caldwell a �it :
> > > 
> > > > > - most users do not have enough upstream to transmit CIF, but still
> > > > > selected it because it is bigger. Then they complain that the sound is
> > > > > not of so good quality than Skype with no video.
> > >
> > > And a popup is not a good idea either, sorry :(
> > 
> > why is it not? It could tell people "There is too much packet loss on
> > the line, please check your parameters and reduce accordingly" like in
> > XINE or mplayer. Those systems will just tell you the like if you're
> > trying to playback DVD without having proper options to drop fames in
> > case the system cannot cope with it etc..
> 
> We are talking about a popup when the option is selected. 
> 
> Sorry, but that doesn't sound to be a very clean approach.
> 
> Moreover, if you flood your upload, you won't necessarily have packets
> loss on your downstream, but the remote will have packets loss because
> of you!

BTW: the wizard asks what kind of connection you have.  Perhaps the
decision on what video size/bandwidth is available could be based on
that setting?