[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Noah, I have been contacted by 2 people but nothing so > far. If you want to add $500 please email me your details and > I'll add it to the wiki to co-ordinate this. > > I agree I'm really surprised why no one has shown more of an > interest in video calls on asterisk yet.
It is certainly worthy of discussion, but perhaps not really that surprising; video has been the next big thing in telephony since the 50s. I think the price of entry has always scared folks off, not to mention that the kind of bandwidth and horsepower required by video makes audio seem a piece of cake. But I think the real barrier with video is the cultural environment. We have certain expectations when we're seeing video: years of television has trained us to expect a certain level of production. This means that video connections come with certain cultural expectations that audio does not. Please understand that I'm not saying video is bad, or useless, or unimportant, or whatever. I'm just observing the fact that the industry has been promising that video will be the standard in communication for over fifty years, and people still love their telephones. Consider: I could have a business conversation with you right now over the telephone, but as I'm still in my underwear, a video conversation would not be fun for you at all! The interest is there, but perhaps everyone's got enough to do with audio to get into worrying about video just yet. It's not that no one wants it, it's more a matter of priorities. Again, I'm not trying to put a value judgement on it, merely to speculate on why the interest is not as high as one might expect. Regards, Jim. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Noah Miller > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Meetme with video??? > >> I wonder if there is an application available, what would >> allow me to have a conference call (meetme) with video. > > Nope, AFAIK there's nothing yet. There is a bounty of $2000 for this > functionality: > > http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+bounty+Meet+Me+vid > eo+conferencing > > You can add to this bounty, if you want. I'm trying to convince the > money people at my company that we should add $500 to this. > > BTW: Is anybody working on this? > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.0 - Release Date: 17/12/2004 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users