Just as a point of interest, I just completed a test meeting using OpenMeetings across three sites using the demo server.
I was suitably impressed by the project. It has a few annoying limitations, but as an online meeting tool it is very good. to the extent that I will almost certainly be installing a copy on our own servers. I would be very happy to see it coming into the incubator and would be willing to be a mentor, assuming the legal issues are not blockers. Ross 2009/11/3 Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedo...@gmail.com>: > Noel, > Regarding Theora codec, I have checked the page [1]. Currently, there > are no products which successfully use the codec for video > communication. Video-phone encodes and decodes the stream in > real-time, adopts the quality with regard to network conditions (e.g. > lost packet rate) and tries to minimize subjective effects of network > errors - the list of requirements is broader than for media players > Theora is mostly used. The work [2] says suggests using hardware > implementations for Theora codec because, otherwise "a computational > performance too high to be implemented in the camera by the universal > processor". > > So at least it requires some time and testing before I can say that > Theora-based solution is feasible. Another ecosystem change, like > embedding video-codecs in browsers, may resolve our need in a > different way. > > [1] http://www.vorbis.com/software/ > [2] http://www3.elphel.com/linuxtag/talks_2005/paper-11081 > > 2009/11/3 Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com>: >> Alexei Fedotov wrote: >> >>> I see two long-term possibilities for synergy. >>> 1. BlueSky can integrate browser pannel in their client to handle a >>> whiteboard. In this case the code for whiteboard can be re-used in >>> both projects. >> >>> 2. They promise to get rid from mplayer and ffmpeg dependencies. If >>> they get a working streaming video-client under APL, this would help >>> us to remove the most imporant dependency from Flash. >> >> They are proposing to move to Theora/Vorbis, which is under a suitable >> license: http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#slic. Would that be suitable for your >> needs? >> >>> we [also] get more people on Apache who share the same task. >> >> Agreed. >> >> --- Noel >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, > Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, > http://www.telecom-express.ru/ > http://harmony.apache.org/ > http://www.expressaas.com/ > http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
