Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joel Burtram
>You will be hard pressed to find an off-the-shelf OSS product that works well > for videoconferencing. I agree - I worked for a company that produced video/web-conferncing software. BTW - The server side is called an MCU (multipoint control unit). Our MCU was multi-platform (windows, linux and

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:13:26 -0400 Gerry Hull wrote > I did some more searching... It seems that lots of people are doing video > conferencing with Freeswitch Here''s some documentation: > http://wiki.projectdiastar.org/index.php/FreeSWITCH/Woomera_User_Guide#Video_Conferencing Ah, yes. Proj

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Gerry Hull
I did some more searching... It seems that lots of people are doing video conferencing with Freeswitch Here''s some documentation: http://wiki.projectdiastar.org/index.php/FreeSWITCH/Woomera_User_Guide#Video_Conferencing Freeswitch is at http://www.freeswitch.org. As long as you have the pip

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:02:01 -0400 Ben Scott wrote > > > Please clarify "server side". Do you mean you're looking for > > recommendations on central server software to coordinate traditional > > video conferencing client software, or do you mean you're looking for

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> XMPP is presence and text-oriented messages, not streaming video. >> SIP does session set-up and tear-down. > > Actually, XMPP does do streaming video; I don't believe it was > part of the core protcol spec, but it did come in later v

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >>> If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", > >>> "Empathy", > >>> or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? > >> > >> I expect so, given that at least a coup

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:02:01 -0400 Ben Scott wrote > Please clarify "server side". Do you mean you're looking for > recommendations on central server software to coordinate traditional > video conferencing client software, or do you mean you're looking for > something that hides the client in

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > But the piece he's missing -- which I implied > but didn't state, so it's kinda my fault -- are the words "server side." Please clarify "server side". Do you mean you're looking for recommendations on central server software to coordina

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >>> If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", "Empathy", >>> or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? >> >> I expect so, given that at least a couple of those are not video >> conferencin

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > > >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > > > > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", > > > "Empathy", > > > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? > > > > I expect so,

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Gerry Hull
Those are either clients or, protocols -- I presume you meant H323, not 232... You will be hard pressed to find an off-the-shelf OSS product that works well for videoconferencing. Vmukti was around for a while, but they seem to have gone commercial. Freeswitch is an awesome softswitch. The swit

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", "Empathy", > > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunder

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
> >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", "Empathy", > > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? > > I expect so, given that at least a couple of those are not v

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", "Empathy", > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? I expect s

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > in-house, by strong preference Open Source (for both philosophical as well as > financial reasons). [...] > I'm completely open-minded as to an OSS solution so long as: > > - It's not overly har

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/26/2012 03:33 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > in-house, by strong preference Open Source (for both philosophical as well as > financial reasons). I've found a couple of promising candidates (e.g., check > out Openmeetings