Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 22:17 +0000, JGJones a écrit : > Just wanted to say my bit :) > > I'm profoundly deaf. Obviously I cannot use telephones. Technologies > such as Skype is useless for me. > > Videophone are of HUGE importance to me and many other Deaf people that > converse in sign language. And there is actually very few quality > solutions. However in the USA, the DLink DVC-1000 videophone is very > very popular among the Deaf people there - because they can get them for > free. Sadly I've not been able to get GnomeMeeting to work with them for > some reason - any heads up on that would be nice.
gnomemeeting -d 3 > output.txt 2>&1 Just mail me the output of a call that fails and I see if I can explain it and fix it. > > Anyway my point is that with a lack of a good videophone solution (MSN > Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger et al might do "video" - for a hearing > person, seeing a face, albiet jerky might be fine, but for us sign > language users - the smoothness of the video is of criticial > importanance. Make it jerky and it become too hard to follow sign > language. That is where MSN et al fails. > > GnomeMeeting provide decent video rates to the point I can converse > almost naturally in sign language. > > So don't think that GnomeMeeting is becoming a thing of past. In my view > when it comes to video - it's still much much in the present and many > others are just playing catch up. I am eagarly looking forward to a > Windows port and advising Mac users about the XMeeting - based on > GnomeMeeting isn't it? For OSX. > > Keep up the great work. > > JGJones > > Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn > Cymru am byth > > BSL Video-Group: > http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz > > Deaf-UK Technology Wiki > http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page > > There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals. > > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
