Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:48:43 +0000 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conferencing tools, Netmeeting, Communicator Message-ID: <19980209184843.53441@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199802091543.QAA14330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 04:43:03PM %2B0100 References: <199802091804.SAA11097@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <199802091543.QAA14330@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 04:43:03PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I would like to get a picture of the conferencing tools > > situation once more. There are solutions working in the Win32 field > ... > > 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) > > nv has a nice feature called "X11 grabber" which would use a window > as the video source. It is very very useful, in many cases much > more than having a real camera. Too bad vic does not have one such > thing. Yes, I know that feature. But NV it out of discussion for conferencing now due to it's high bandwidth consumption and lack of the more sophisticated compression protocols (AFAIK). > > I have an X11 grabber in the works for vic but am working on it at > very low pace (it currently has some problems with colors...) and > my repeated requests for help did not find any taker. I meant not just viewing a portion of the opponents screen, it's taking over the mouse control etc. - that's what MS Netmeeting does. Well, the 'two worlds' begin to diverge even more, sigh. > > > 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. > > provided you can make plugins work (they do work on Communicator > 4.0X, but the beast consumes almost 16MB of memory by itself, twice > the already large footprint of 3.0x, and I refuse to use such large > programs if not forced), you can use the "xswallow" program to import > vic/vat/etc in netscape... > > > 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 > > it works well in full duplex with my driver, since i have a few of > them, and managed to circumvent the "features" and misbehaviours > of the card. I am using it routinely for internet telephony from > home. Oh, that's good news :-) Is that under 2.2.5-R or do I need -current? > > cheers > luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ -- 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
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