From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 9 08:55:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04685 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04658 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 08:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11097 for multimedia@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:04:25 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:04:25 GMT From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199802091804.SAA11097@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: conferencing tools, Netmeeting, Communicator Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would like to get a picture of the conferencing tools situation once more. There are solutions working in the Win32 field now quite neatly, MS Netmeeting and Netscape Communicator work in common - I tried it out herei (though not in depth). MS Netmeeting has the additional feature that it allows to export a remote Windows screen to the caller (a thing that X windows had per se from it's initial design but it's quite unlikely that one will be able to export a windows screen by means of these tools to the X11 world - despite of looking at things like NTrigue or such) I wonder if there could be made a working Communicator version with audio/video now that Netscape will be releasing source code for their browsers this quarter - they said. What remains left for the unix world so far are then vic/vat/wb/sd which are the choices in the high energy physics world (CERN) at present but this may change also in a year or two when the NTmania has taken over that field as well. Under NT, btw, I had very satisfactory results with the cheapo (20 $) Opti 931 based ISA sound cards allowing full duplex. BTW, what is the status of support for the Opti 931 chipset (Luigi?) I once learned this chipset to be broken but seeing how these cards works nicely with dual DMA under NT I wonder if this 'brokeness' is just a lack of knowledge of hoe to circumvent perhaps certains flaws of the chipset by programming kludges - dunno. Comments? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message