From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 26 02:42:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07260 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA07252 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 02:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id KAA06814; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:37:24 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199711260937.KAA06814@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: command-line vat/like program To: pete@sms.fi (Petri Helenius) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:37:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199711261018.MAA07105@silver.sms.fi> from "Petri Helenius" at Nov 26, 97 12:18:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > > - be as easy to use as a telephone, especially for point-to-point > > communications, so that one can possibly use it even without a > > screen, just a keyboard and the audio device (i.e. feedback comes > > through the headset, as in a telephone.) > > In order to really achieve this, outside the niche-scope of > RTP-conferencing application interoperability the application needs to > speak H.323 to the network. There is already a line of boxes and > applications that do everything from simple telephony to CTI, etc. and > the common thing they all do is H.323. you are right. However, now can you please tell me where i can get something reasonably resembling a usable specification (or even code samples) without having to pay big money to the ITU and perhaps even being sued for writing and making available code for some patented encoding/protocol ? 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________