Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-18 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: what's your experience with dimdim? -- niyam bhushan From Linux / FOSS perspective: Webcam detection and control is through Adobe Flash 9.0. :-( . I have a Webcam with USB Video Class support. I could not use it

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-18 Thread satyaakam goswami
I have a Webcam with USB Video Class support. I could not use it with DimDim. Webcam is otherwise detected and works out of the box. I installed Adobe Flash 10, but was still out of luck. This was abt 3mths back. I didnt check of late. Another vital difference with webex is that you can

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Arun Kumar Khan
On Saturday 17 Jan 2009, Dhiraj Gaur wrote: Pretty good is what I would comment. A good and tough open source competitor to Webex I must say. I had heard about it from the TwinkCling Society @ HYD. IIRC, it has been developed by a HYD based company. Thanks for your feedback about usage in

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
dimdim is a sophisticated web-conferencing solution, under gpl, but also under various other licenses: http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_gpl.html looks like it's geared to take on webex, adobe, and everybody else in the web-conf arena. For the record, the facility to display the

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Nandeep Mali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Vikas Rawal vikasra...@gmail.com wrote: dimdim is a sophisticated web-conferencing solution, under gpl, but also under various other licenses: http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_gpl.html looks like it's geared to take on webex, adobe, and everybody else

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
Till then one could use a VNC client for that single purpose. Like TightVNC which is under GPL. Yes. But the fact that you can just display your screen on other people's web browser is simpler and more convenient. The fact that it works on windows but not on linux is sad. But you are right,

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Vikas Rawal vikasra...@gmail.com wrote: Till then one could use a VNC client for that single purpose. Like TightVNC which is under GPL. Yes. But the fact that you can just display your screen on other people's web browser is simpler and more convenient. The

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
i thought the video-demo showed it working under the macOS as well. you sure it doesn't work under linux? from http://help.dimdim.com/activekb/questions/48/Can+Mac+and+Linux +presenters+share+their+desktop%3F The Screencast (Desktop Share) option is available on Windows Presenters Mac .

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-16 Thread Dhiraj Gaur
Pretty good is what I would comment. A good and tough open source competitor to Webex I must say. I have tried doing conference with DIM DIM with quite a few of my friends and everybody is impressed (including ardent fans of Webex).Though webex boasts of its superior network and service uptime i

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-16 Thread linuxlingam
Thanks Dhiraj, on sharing your experiences with dimdim. The tip on managing better with around six people is good. I think will try it soon for outstation foss-conferences and events to which i can't travel. The ability to share my desktop and to whiteboard, makes software hands-on seminars and