Any ppc programmers interested in Video Conferencing?
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yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Apr 20 13:43:01 2002
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:15:08 -0700
Hugh Caley <hcaley@loomer.com> wrote:
>
> Are there any ppc programmers out there interested in video
> conferencing? There is a set of libraries and programs available for
> Linux that implement the H.323 protocol; this is the major video
> conferencing protocol used by most corporate video conferencing
> equipment and by software such as Microsoft Netmeeting. It's all free,
> as well.
>
> The software I'm thinking of are:
>
> http://www.openh323.org (libraries and command line apps)
> http://gnomemeeting.org (a gnome-based gui)
>
> Unfortunately there are some glitches running these on the ppc platform;
> althought they build they don't work quite right. I suspect the changes
> needed to work on ppc would be pretty minor, but unfortunately I'm not a
> programmer and so I can't help them. There are problems with:
>
> 1. sound support (on YDL 2.1/2.2, at least, none of these programs seem
> to be able to open /dev/dsp)
> 2. video distortion (looks like you are looking through some kind of
> mosaic window, and this is both with send and receive)
Although sound did not work here, video was fine. I'm using YDL 2.1.