Ar 22/04/2008 am 09:59, ysgrifennodd Guillaume Desmottes: > Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 11:54 -0400, Chris Ball a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > > - They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was > > > working on it months ago. What is the current status? > > > > We need two things: a codec that we can encode and decode in real-time > > (the demo from 2006 used h.263) and a transport layer -- I think we have > > a UDP transport for Salut, but not for Gabble, so video chat would be on > > the local mesh only. > > > > No. Gabble already implements Jingle audio/video (as gtalk). Transport > is done using UDP-ICE. Last year I wrote a simple (and ugly :) video > chat activity who was using this. >
I think it's also worth noting that we have a Telepathy connection manager that implements SIP, which might be nice for interoperability. > > It would be worth someone checking out the Theora team's latest > > optimizations, which might make Theora solve the codec problem. > > Right. As said we need a good free encoder as H263 has legal issues. > > So, if we want to have full audio/video support on XO's we have to: > a) Solve this legal codec issue and make farsight work with the chosen > free codec > b) Implement audio/video in Salut I think link-local voice/video is not as useful as non-link-local, unless you have a large mesh. > c) Have a proper video chat activity integrated in sugar (#1627, #6301) -- Dafydd _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel