Ok, I will have a look at Farsight documentation to make sure that what I do will not be contrary to the way Farsight works. I already thought of a good frontend/backend separation and (for sending webcam) separation of the grabbing and the sending over the network. I don't think waiting for Farsight to be implemented is the perfect idea, I just need to keep Farsight in mind, and make my design such that Farsight can easily be used as a backend. Anyway, thanks for mentioning, I heard of it before, but did not think of it now!
About multiple sources... in what I currently have there can be only one source at a time. So you choose device for amsn, not per webcam session. And I think selecting it per session does not really have great advantages, and will make things unnecessarily more complex, both in development and use. But if others see advantages in being able to send from one device to one contact, and from another device to another contact, I can make it that way. What I currently have in the new code (partially), is most similar to the approach we already had on Mac. Have 1 grabber window, and use the image from that grabber. It appeared most intuitive to me. Seeing myself on any webcam-related window I open (except receiving cam from others of course), is not necessary, seeing the image just once will do perfectly. If we allow multiple sources, we may have a grabber window for every source in use, so that isn't even a big change. (Or maybe better... for every source a tab... unless people really want to see multiple sources. hmmm.... detachable tabs maybe??) Okay, just let me know what you all think, and I will try to conform to your wishes as much as possible ;-) Harry Op zondag 30 april 2006 11:21, schreef Philippe Valembois - Phil: > Really good idea !! > Some time ago I tried to clean up the code and make it clearer.... but I > gave up by lack of time... > Anyway, I would be happy if you would implement what I had in mind... > Currently we can send a preregistered session using a debug hack and it > applies to all open webcams... I wanted to generalize the way to grab > images... I mean, for each webcam session we could select the source of the > image : either a file, a v4l device for linux, a DirectShow device for > Windows and so on and make it in a way to be able to add easily another > device class (we never know)... > If you could do in a such way, it could be great !! :d > Phil > P.S. I just remind, Youness tried to implement Farsight in aMsn so maybe > you should wait for it since it should make the webcam management easier... > I leave my mail content anyway since it can bring some ideas for future > development ;) > But if I understood well, Farsight is to use with gstreamer... And > gstreamer will be really powerful to let us do the things I exposed > above... > > Le Sunday 30 April 2006 08:23, Harry Vennik a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > Just for your information, I started a msncam.tcl rewrite yesterday. > > Karel told me about a memleak in it (objects array) and I thought it > > would be fairly simple to fix, but while investigating it, I found many > > other things that slow the whole thing down, and also it was hard to tell > > how to clean up the objects array (i.e. where to do a unset, and what to > > unset then). So I had to draw the conclusion that starting from scratch > > would be the best way to go. Of course I also copy/paste many code from > > the current msncam.tcl, but most of it will be modified. For example, the > > objects array will not exist anymore. I am using snit-objects for > > everything. > > > > Of course the rewritten msncam.tcl will not go into the 0.96 release, but > > will get in cvs shortly after the release, so it can be thoroughly tested > > before it gets into a release. > > > > I am monitoring all work on the current msncam.tcl to make sure I port > > those changes to my new version if they apply to something that is in > > there already, but big code-reorganisations will be double work, so > > please don't bother ;-) We're in a bugfix-contest-before-release anyway. > > > > Regards, > > > > Harry > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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