Re: Video conferencing application

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 12/16/2010 01:21 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org
> <mailto:pockeylam gnome org>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     Yeah, we would definitely use video conferencing (and / or
>     broadcasting tool) to connect events from different venues around
>     the world.
>
>     What we have tested so far:
>
>     Ekiga -- cannot even make one on one video chat on the same network,
>     sip calls didn't work, and the only thing that we managed to get
>     working is voice in the conference room. just wonder if anybody made
>     Ekiga video chat work? what's the trick?
>
>
> I'm surprised Ekiga didn't work.  Have you asked in #ekiga on IRC?
> Those guys are pretty good in helping.
>
> Gosh all this fail in video conferencing depresses me.  I remember
> looking for such a solution for Linux Plumbers Conference.  We had
> gotten a government official as a keynote (which ultimately fell
> through) and he would only do it via video conferencing.  I knew then
> that our video conferencing fu is not very strong and that was a year
> ago as it was nearly impossible to find something that would work
> especially following the standard video conferencing protocols that the
> government was using.
>
> Meh.
>
> Talk to Zaheer, he might know as well.  He's been doing some work with
> setting up Fluendo (although he no longer works for them).  I'm not
> aware of anybody else doing anything with video conferencing.  But it's
> a big hole in free desktops.
>
> sri
Well it seems there is maybe a (discontinued) project called MPEG4IP 
http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/ which explains how to built a 
sound/video streaming system. It's a bit more complicated but could 
work. I'll continue search in that direction and see what can "easily" 
be deployed. I guess a page listing all the available streams on that 
day would work very well too.

Fred