if we do this, we'll be good! webcam support will be much more easier
this
way...
what do you think ?
KaKaRoTo
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:42:21 -0400, Harry Vennik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
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