Re: VideoChat-7 release
Thanks much for packaging this up! I've installed the bundle on two XOs running 760 and when connected to xochat.org I am able to start the VideoChat program and see the self-video thumbnail and a little XO Neighborhood sized icon of the 2nd XO in the big window next to the thumbnails. At that point, nothing I can do makes a connection and clicking on the icon will lock up the program. If you've gotten it working, maybe you could put up a sequence of screenshots and instructions on the wiki so that I know I've gotten things working. I'll be trying a clean install from scratch with a blank 8.2-760 and then the VideoChat-7.xo in case some of my previous install attempts from the original directions are what are causing the problem. Regards, Chris Stephen Thorne wrote: G'day, I'm pleased to announce that I've had a successful Video conversation, and am releasing the .xo file that is the result of this weeks hard labour. This has only been tested on build 8.2-760. Known bugs: * It is an absolute requirement that you be connected to a jabber server in order to have a video conversation. The activity will just pulse and stop if you aren't connected. * There is no way to stop a conversation without quitting one end. * Sometimes telepathy-stream-engine does die on exit of VideoChat, and X needs to be restarted, or sudo killall telepathy-stream-engine is required. Unknown bugs: * report to me, and trac, please. Patches appreciated. Logs appreciated. XO file: http://suqld.org.au/~stephen/VideoChat-7.xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: VideoChat-7 release
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've installed the bundle on two XOs running 760 and when connected to xochat.org I am able to start the VideoChat program and see the self-video thumbnail and a little XO Neighborhood sized icon of the 2nd XO in the big window next to the thumbnails. At that point, nothing I can do makes a connection and clicking on the icon will lock up the program. I've had another report of this happening today, on a joyride build. If you can put the logfile (~/.sugar/default/logs/VideoChat-*.log) somewhere where I can have a look at it, that would be great. -- Stephen Thorne Give me enough bandwidth and a place to sit and I will move the world. --Jonathan Lange ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: VideoChat-7 release
Hi all, quote who=Stephen Thorne I'm pleased to announce that I've had a successful Video conversation, and am releasing the .xo file that is the result of this weeks hard labour. I just wanted to say a big thanks to Stephen for all his work. I believe this app will really make a huge difference to people as it has distance education, communication, health and many other wonderful implications. Great work! I'll update the Activities page now. Cheers, Pia -- OLPC Australia http://olpc.org.au/ Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution. - Bill Hicks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
VideoChat-7 release
G'day, I'm pleased to announce that I've had a successful Video conversation, and am releasing the .xo file that is the result of this weeks hard labour. Because of various incompatibilities, mostly due to Record depending on a earlier version of Gstreamer, I have decided to package all the dependencies of VideoChat inside the Activity itself. Many many atrocious hacks were committed getting this to work, I hope to get many of the required dependancies into the build, which should lighten this activity from 8mb compressed, 23mb uncompressed to the few hundred kb it should be. Video negotiates as h263 using the ffmpeg libs. Audio is sent using speex. This has only been tested on build 8.2-760. Known bugs: * It is an absolute requirement that you be connected to a jabber server in order to have a video conversation. The activity will just pulse and stop if you aren't connected. * There is no way to stop a conversation without quitting one end. * Sometimes telepathy-stream-engine does die on exit of VideoChat, and X needs to be restarted, or sudo killall telepathy-stream-engine is required. Unknown bugs: * report to me, and trac, please. Patches appreciated. Logs appreciated. XO file: http://suqld.org.au/~stephen/VideoChat-7.xo -- Stephen Thorne Give me enough bandwidth and a place to sit and I will move the world. --Jonathan Lange ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: VideoChat-7 release
Am 18.09.2008 um 15:17 schrieb Stephen Thorne: http://suqld.org.au/~stephen/VideoChat-7.xo Yay! We just had a video chat between Australia and Germany :) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: VideoChat-7 release
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Thorne wrote: | Video negotiates as h263 using the ffmpeg libs. Audio is sent using speex. h.263 is subject to a number of patents in many countries. The patentholders generally demand royalties for any distribution of the encoder or decoder. To determine whether these patents constitute a significant legal risk in your jurisdiction, consult a lawyer. Since I do not feel that I, as a US citizen and resident, can safely redistribute this Activity, I would be interested in tweaking it to use h261 or Theora, to see how it performs. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjSXwkACgkQUJT6e6HFtqRl1QCfSqc08IhNfEoP2z2kipPx3Y1b BRwAn0PCrVfnky5lG5xIusAPX1iIZCjv =P/9V -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: VideoChat-7 release
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:30:38PM +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 10:00 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz a écrit : Since I do not feel that I, as a US citizen and resident, can safely redistribute this Activity, I would be interested in tweaking it to use h261 or Theora, to see how it performs. That will be possible using Farsight-2 but VideoChat will need to use the new libstreamengine which is currently in work in progress. More precisely, you need Farsight2 if you want to implement Theora, as you need to send some codec-data out of band before starting the video streams. Unfortunately afaik theora is still quite heavy for an XO (although some work is being done there, but i don't know the status of it) With current stream-engine, you could in theory do h261, but gstreamer currently doesn't have h261 payloader and depayloader plugins. Also the only h261 encoder/decoder available for gstreamer are part of ffmpeg, which itself is in a bit of a legal grey area. If you want to avoid that, you could extra the h261 implementation ekiga/opal uses and wrap that into a gstreamer plugin. This is all very doable, but unfortunately not just simple tweaking. But it's very important to note that VideoChat itself shouldn't/doesn't link directly to any patented code, you only get that it you install the extra plugins. With purely the base set of gstreamer plugins, you should still be able to setup a audio-only call (Assuming the VideoChat ui handles that correctly). Sjoerd -- There is no cure for birth and death other than to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
